Just because the world of business has been sleeping for a few months, doesn’t mean that cybercriminals have stopped working. In fact, there’s a real sense that businesses will forget how important cybersecurity is for their business, once they get back to working again. There was already a shift in the way hackers and malware started operating in 2020. So will that still matter now? The tactics will have changed a little but overall, the threats are still emanating from the same threats. You need a way to evaluate each threat and assign a process that will take care of them effectively and efficiently.

AI power and learning

Artificial intelligence is great in so many different areas of business. Artificial learning is definitely an asset that cannot be understated. AI learning in cybersecurity applications can spot patterns of attacks, point out your hidden weaknesses, and learn how criminals try to steal information or shut down your IT network. Systems that can run AI learning, unlock the hidden secrets of natural language processing but also collect information that is only seen in coding. They autonomously and automatically comb through trillions of code and study human inputs into the system, to alert you of abnormal behavior. What would normally take days to be spotted by a human, will take AI just a few minutes or less.

Cyber training and threat evaluation

Employees need to know what kind of threats to be wary of. It’s not useful for an employer to simply create a bogeyman image in workers’ minds and hope that fear alone will stop them from doing unguarded things. However, with Levit8 – Leading IT Solution Provider your staff will get the proper human cyber education and training. This way your employees are informed and highly capable of preventing attacks and essentially, inadvertently inviting the enemy in. Their threat evaluation service is so crucial because, with their ability to investigate and identify threats that could threaten your organization, you can take a proportional response. This is, therefore, more financially efficient. 

Recovering from an attack

Even the best of them fall victim to cybercriminals, malware, and viruses. The trick is to know how to recover when it happens. You need to have backups of all your data, primarily on seperate cloud systems. You also need a way to identify the key cause of data loss, password changes, and stolen information about products, etc. This can be done through a recovery process service. 

A business continuity plan is the next thing. You need to get vital systems back online such as your LAN network, your IT infrastructure, and your database. Once you have the basics back online, then you can begin to delegate recovery tasks to managers, such as recovering accounts, tasks, projects, and other key data. Recovery is best done, without being connected to the internet to prevent a second attack while your defenses are still down.

When you are trying to recover from this brutal lockdown, don’t forget that cybercriminals don’t sleep and they will be out hunting their latest victims. Don’t become one of them!