Real-world defense strategies to enhance cyber resilience in the cloud (SEC210)
Enhancing Cyber Resilience: A Real-World Defense Strategy
Introduction
This session is a fireside chat with Simon Med Imaging, a customer of Cohesity, a data management and data security platform.
The discussion focuses on real-world defense strategies for enhancing cyber resilience.
About the Speakers
Jason S. Simon, Vice President of Infrastructure at Simon Med Imaging, has over 25 years of experience in healthcare IT.
The speaker from Cohesity is part of the technical advocacy team and will be moderating the discussion.
Simon Med Imaging's Cyber Resilience Strategies
Simon Med Imaging has been a Cohesity customer for 4 years, using their data backup and recovery solutions.
They are in the early stages of their cloud migration to AWS, focusing on setting up their network infrastructure and implementing Cohesity's "Fort Knox" solution for air-gapped data backups.
Challenges faced by Simon Med Imaging include:
Data fragmentation and understanding their data footprint
Protecting their large data volumes (petabytes) and ensuring data integrity and security
Strategies used to enhance cyber resilience:
Replicating data between sites and using Cohesity's immutable backups to protect against ransomware
Implementing advanced security tools like XDR (Extended Detection and Response) solutions
Focusing on data recovery and backup as the "rip cord to safety" in the event of an attack
Tabletop Exercises and Testing Cyber Resilience Plans
Simon Med Imaging regularly conducts tabletop exercises and runs through incident response scenarios to validate their playbooks and ensure their teams are prepared.
They emphasize the importance of being methodical and following a structured process during a security incident, as opposed to reacting in a panicked, unorganized manner.
Outcomes Achieved with Cohesity
The ability to significantly reduce their recovery time objective (RTO) through Cohesity's instant VM recovery capabilities.
Cohesity has helped them balance the need for high availability and uptime with the cost of maintaining that level of service.
Upcoming Cyber Resilience Priorities
Continuing their journey to AWS, focusing on protecting their large data volumes and ensuring patient data is secure.
Exploring ways to leverage AWS services and Cohesity's integrations to enhance their overall cyber resilience strategy.
Challenges in the Threat Landscape
93% of the security community has felt the pressure from ransomware attacks, which are becoming increasingly aggressive.
48% of organizations express concerns about their cyber resilience strategy.
Common challenges include long recovery times, data fragmentation, and the use of outdated backup and recovery systems.
Cohesity's Approach to Cyber Resilience
Improving security efficiency by integrating with popular security tools and platforms.
Enabling safe response and recovery, including the ability to recover into isolated sandboxes.
Enhancing threat detection through integrations with threat intelligence feeds and data classification capabilities.
Aligning with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to cover the full spectrum of cyber resilience.
Cohesity Integrations
Cohesity offers pre-built integrations with various vendors to enhance cyber resilience, including vulnerability scanning, ransomware response, data loss prevention, and data security posture management solutions.
Conclusion
The session highlights the importance of a comprehensive and well-tested cyber resilience strategy, emphasizing the value of collaboration, tabletop exercises, and leveraging tools and platforms like Cohesity to improve an organization's overall cyber resilience.
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