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Fighting Fire with Fire: Automating CyberSecurity

When it comes to automating cybersecurity, there are many benefits to your processes and protections. Let’s review how automation can be used to protect your business, and by extension, your livelihood.

One of the major cyber security concerns of today is how attacks are now frequently automated, making it intensely difficult for a human being to successfully keep up with threats. As a result, it only makes sense to automate your cyber security measures as well.

There are a few ways that you can do just that.

Crunching the Numbers

Regardless of how much data you collect, just collecting it isn’t going to benefit your organization all that much – especially when it concerns your security. It also needs to be processed and analyzed, which is simply too big of a job to be done manually.

By compiling data from multiple internal and external sources, a business can better predict how threats will play out, as well as identify those that it hasn’t yet encountered. By utilizing machine learning and automation technologies, this compilation and processing is a much simpler, faster, and more accurate process, bringing your business improved security measures.

Furthermore, many businesses face a lack of security-oriented employees. Automation can help make up the difference, reducing the burden on whatever resources they do have to protect their network.

Benefits of Automating CyberSecurity

There are multiple ways that adopting automation can deliver improvements to your cyber security.

Data-Supported Inferences

By sequencing data collected from within your organization, along with data provided by security vendors and other sources, you can use this data to draw conclusions and make predictions about threats, enabling you to catch them more effectively.

Outpacing Attacks with Protections

Cyber security is effectively an arms race. As researchers discover new threats, they need to implement new preventative measures to stop them from spreading. Of course, often a threat has already moved on to its next step by the time someone discovers it. This means that predicting and protecting these steps becomes necessary to prevent the threat from advancing. Automated defenses are the most effective means to foil an automated attack, as they are more efficient and accurate.

Detecting Threats in the Network

When a network fails to deter a cyber threat, it doesn’t immediately become a data breach. Additionally, automated protections can effectively analyze data to prevent such an outcome. Since one cannot hope to keep up with one of these threats, relying on automation is the best option for detecting, identifying, and resolving them.

WheelHouse IT is here to help you implement the cyber security necessary to protect your business’s resources, including automated measures. To learn more, reach out to us at (877) 771-2384.

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