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Our services are designed to support your business goals and GLBA security compliance requirements at the lowest cost possible.
We are here to support your IT team to achieve cyber security and business continuity.
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The Danger Lurking in Your Business
As a school owner, your focus needs to be on enrollment, education content and delivery, and placement. Accreditation, licensing, accounting, HR, Title IV and Title IX are all necessary but not why you got into the business.
Now Cyber Security has become a profound threat to your business. With the addition of Artificial intelligence, every day you are only one click away from a catastrophe.
It’s estimated that 40% to 60% of all small businesses fail within 6 months of a cyber security attack.
Being connected to the internet along with Artificial Intelligence creates an increased threat landscape which hackers are using to exploit your employee’s vulnerabilities and your connected systems.
Our goals is to help protect your school from the dangers that are attacking you through your connection to the world.
The overall strategy is to start by lowering the risk while increasing the resilience of your business systems and data to help ensure business continuity. Today the question isn’t if you get hacked but rather when you get hacked, can you recover.
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As you would expect, the more protections you have in place, the more it will cost. That’s why our strategy is designed to address the highest risks first and build out the more sophisticated recovery solutions over time.
Many schools already have some protections in place which is great. Your IT team focuses on your computers, networks and software, including basic antivirus. However, they may not be focused on cyber security and GLBA compliance.
We are here to work with your existing IT team to make sure that you are as secure as possible and in compliance with GLBA requirements. That’s why we always start with a free assessment of your current systems and protections.
Focus of Solutions
Prevention
80% to 90% of most cyber security incidents are the result human error, primarily by people clicking on malicious links in phishing emails, social media or text messages, the risk is enormous.
Additionally, out of date systems and software create additional vulnerabilities.
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Detection
The average time from cyber breach to time of detection is around 200 days with another 60-90 days to recover. The reality is that once a hacker gains access to one system, they inject programs that avoid detection, proliferate throughout all connected devices and use the information to attempt to gain access to anyone you email. They also set up a back door so they can patiently access your systems at will, monitor key strokes and logins and copy all of your data.
Response
The speed of response is critical to containing a breach. 24/7 monitoring with the ability to isolate and shut down affected systems is your first defense.
Remediation and Recovery
To fix the problem requires a high level of knowledge and support to identify both the timing of the breach and the scope of all affected equipment and infections before restoring the data. A reliable and robust, multi layered backup solution is an important part of the recovery.
Disaster Recovery Required Notification and Documentation
Compliance requires that the disaster recovery plan includes proper notifications and documentation of the breach and all steps taken to recover and protections implemented to protect your systems but also your customer data.
GLBA Compliance Documentation
Does your school have a documented plan that validates the required GLBA standards and controls? In addition to being a requirement, it is a good starting point for creating the roadmap of what areas need to be addressed to secure your school data, both digital and physical.
Important questions
Do you know the risks and do you have a plan?
Do you have a training strategy in place to educate staff on the latest threats and send phishing simulations to test their knowledge and real time response?
Remember, every day you are only one click away from a disaster and 80-90% of all cyber attacks and hacks start with a user clicking on a link.
Yes, our system provides detailed reports on training completion and phishing test results, tailored for GLBA compliance.
How do you know if one or more of your computers have been compromised and how quickly can you react to a breach to contain the damage?
Time is of the essence as once a hacker gains access, they inject programs onto the computer to act as a back door and to also propagate infection to all attached systems.
The average time it takes to detect a cyber breach—often called “dwell time”—is approximately 181 to 212 days, with an additional 60 to 75 days typically required to contain the incident.
Seconds matter with a breach. If you wait until your data has already be exfiltrated or compromised and your entire system has been infected, the time and expense to repair the system increases exponentially.
Restoration time depends on the nature of the incident, the systems affected, and the quality of backups. That said, we follow a structured recovery plan using tested backups and documented procedures to restore systems as quickly and safely as possible, minimizing downtime while avoiding shortcuts that could cause further issues.
A disaster recovery plan that covers how to respond, the required resources and the reporting requirements are central to recovering from a breach. A good plan should minimize down time and result in improved security moving forward.
A well developed GLBA document in addition to being a requirement, is also an excellent roadmap for achieving data security for both physical and digital data as well as creating the framework for future improvements to your security strategies.