Data Breach Prevention and Response
According to the Investment Firm of the Future, a report published by CFA Institute earlier this year, 24% of the organization’s members rated cybersecurity as their firm’s top technology priority.
With the myriad challenges facing investment professionals in 2018, that’s a striking number.
What to do? E.J. Yerzak, Director of Cyber IT Services for Ascendant Compliance Management, a CSS Company, and Shield, a CSS solution, recently sat down with CFA Institute to discuss planning, protocols, prioritization and more.
A short excerpt:
“It’s one thing to have a documented plan on paper. Until you put it to the test with war games or tabletop exercises, you may not realize that there are some unforeseen situations that may arise.
War-gaming your incident response plan can do wonders for assessing how reasonable it is. Again, you can’t anticipate everything under the sun, but have you anticipated all likely scenarios?
When you start putting the incident response plan to the test . . . someone at the table may say, “Hey, what about this system over here? Our series of five steps here didn’t anticipate that we need to pull backups from system A, and that system A can’t talk to system B unless we’ve done steps one, two, and three over here.” Things like that are important to try to work through in advance.”
You can read the informative interview, “Cybersecurity: The Barbarians are at the Gate,” by clicking here.
For more information on CSS’ cybersecurity solution Shield, click here.