Concerned about your cybersecurity?
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Cybersecurity can be confusing and expensive to navigate for businesses without inhouse expertise.
With dozens of security appliances, subscriptions and services on the market, it can be hard to know what your business needs. The truth is, no SMB has the resources to do it all.
Understanding your risks and having a tailored cybersecurity strategy is critical to ensuring you’re protected, without breaking the bank.
The Stakes
Confusion around cybersecurity can be just as damaging to a business as the threats themselves.
Having a lack of clarity of your cybersecurity strategy leads to indecision, overspend and poor fit solutions. The result?
- Major risks are left unaddressed or even unseen.
- Money wasted on solutions offering little value.
- Leadership lacks confidence making good decisions.
- A strategy that is unaligned to business needs.
The Result
Without a well-balanced strategy aligned to real world business requirements, you not only put yourself at more risk, but stand to incur significantly higher damages in case of an event.
The Sensible Solution
At Sensible, we work with each business to understand their specific vulnerabilities and develop an aligned strategy.
Cybersecurity has a sweet spot, and we help our clients find it. We protect our client’s revenue from both cyber threats and overspend. In addition to a range of cybersecurity tools and services, we provide:
- Regular reviews in line with robust security frameworks ACSC Essential 8 & ISO27001.
- Evidence based findings of security gaps & risk.
- A maintained risk register communicating business risks in commercial language.
- Mitigation strategies to suit varying levels of budget and risk tolerance.
- Ongoing advisory & strategy assistance.
The Result
Working together, we execute a tailored plan that meets your requirements at an investment level you’re comfortable with. Leaving you with confidence and peace of mind.
Should you be concerned that you're not getting the cybersecurity you need?
Without inhouse cybersecurity knowledge, it can be difficult to know if you’re in good hands or not.
You should have concerns if you experience any of these:
Not aware of any outstanding risks
Every business has unaddressed risk. If you do not know of any, you are simply not aware of them.
Recommendations come as a quote
Most security recommendations should be changes to existing configurations. If each recommendation comes at a cost, you are being sold to.
Unsure what would happen
You should know exactly what the impacts of a breach will be. If you don’t, it’s likely untested.
Made no changes this year
Cyber threats evolve quickly. If you haven’t revisited your strategy in the last 6 months, you’re at risk.
Let’s break it down
Most security recommendations are proactive and tend to be changes to existing security tools and platforms. Whilst investment is required from time to time, managing your security should be more akin to classic risk management.
If more than 50% of the security recommendations you receive are tied to a quote or proposal, you’re not getting recommendations, you’re being sold to.
Security management should include:
- Specific evidence related to your environment.
- Discussions of business processes and the systems required to support them.
- Discussions of your options to mitigate your risks including 'good', 'better', 'best'.
- Clarity as to what the impact will be to your business operationally if an event was to occur.
- Advice regarding emerging threats and recommendations to adjust existing security applications, devices and policies.
- A documented risk register providing full transparency of your current situation.
Risk Register
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IT risk registers don’t need to be overly complex. As an example, we provide our clients simple colour-coded ratings based on the risks impact & probability.
A well-constructed and managed IT risk register removes complexity by translating technical limitations into commercial impacts. Helping you make better, more confident decisions.
Why Our Clients Choose Sensible
Advanced Cybersecurity
We protect our clients revenue from modern threats.
Clear Communication
We help our clients make clear, confident decisions.
ISO27001 Accredited
We don’t shoot from the hip, our methods are founded on a solid framework
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Frequently asked questions
Have more questions? We’ve got answers! Here’s what most business owners ask us when they’re thinking about improving their cybersecurity.
How can you secure our business from cyber attacks?
The most critical gap we find in most businesses cyber strategy is lack of awareness. Whilst we have a number of systems, processes and policies that we will use to protect your business, ensuring you’re informed and well advised is most important.
We have an ‘X’ brand firewall, can you manage that?
Yes, we manage all major makes of firewall and network devices. We’re also hardware agnostic – we are not fixed or beholden to any particular brand. This means we will not recommend changing your equipment day one unless we can identify a specific risk to your business that makes commercial sense to solve.
Do we need to have an EDR/MDR/XDR?
Security threats are constantly evolving. That said, not every business needs the latest & greatest methods of protection. Whilst there are essentials everyone requires, we do not push advanced products onto anyone. We will simply highlight risks and explain the potential impacts so that you can make up your own mind how invested you want to be into security.
We recently updated our antivirus & firewall, we should be fine now yes?
No. Whilst still recommended, antivirus is becoming increasingly ineffective as 79% of breaches are now malware free. Additionally, with the rise of remote working and cloud systems, firewalls are no longer the umbrella of protection they used to be. A modern security practice needs to have far more components working together – let us solve that for you.
Everyone says they will get to know my business, what makes you different?
Good intentions only become reality when you have the process in place to support it. The manner in which we review, discuss and mitigate risks in our clients business ensures that we are talking about real world business impact. We don’t just want to know what you do, but what matters to you. It’s this process that allows us to provide tailored advice in language you understand.
We don’t need to be Fort Knox, isn’t this all too much?
Whilst our approach to security may sound complicated it is more a function of the scope and thoroughness of our protection, as opposed to an oversized collection of expensive tools. We do a lot of simple things right. This formality and discipline to process is what can make our process look overly complex, yet is also the process that keeps our client secure.
We need to be Fort Knox, is this enough?
Our standard security practice covers what we believe to be the essentials required to protect an SMB against modern threats. For businesses that require higher levels of protection, we offer additional advanced tools & services to meet those requirements. Unlike cable TV packages, our aim is to ensure you have what you need, without wasting money on what you don’t.
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