Cyber threats can cripple innovation in a customer’s organization. Hence, the paramount importance of detecting and responding to cyber threats quickly and effectively. This minimizes the impact on organizational progress and potential damage caused by security incidents. It’s estimated that it takes an average of 292 days to identify and contain breaches involving stolen credentials.*The ability to promptly identify and respond to threats empowers customers to mitigate risks, protect sensitive data, maintain business continuity, and safeguard their reputation.
This is an ongoing and iterative process that requires a combination of technology, skilled personnel, well-defined processes, and collaboration across various teams within a customer’s enterprise. As a result, this presents a lucrative opportunity for partners to help their customers to implement the necessary best practices that increase the visibility, control, and responsiveness of their environments.
Good cybersecurity hygiene principals for partners to share with their customers
There are concrete steps that partners can assist customers in taking to ensure good cybersecurity hygiene. For starters, reducing their attack surfaces is a critical component of cybersecurity, as this helps them to reinforce their security posture, and is the first pillar of good cybersecurity hygiene. By proactively implementing this measure, organizations can make it more challenging for adversaries to exploit vulnerabilities and compromise their systems.
Partners also play a key role in performing regular audits, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessments for their customers. This helps identify specific areas for improvement within their environments. These are two of the essential components of a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy aimed at reducing the attack surface and detecting and responding to a cyberattack, thereby mitigating risk and enhancing customers’ overall defense posture against new and emerging threats. The final and third component of a robust cybersecurity strategy is planning to recover from a cyberattack; the process of restoring affected systems, networks, and data to a secure and operational state after a security incident. It involves partners working with customers to understand how to mitigate the damage caused by a potential attack, how to rebuild compromised or disrupted services and devices, analyzing how to prevent future attacks and returning the organization’s operations back to normal.
Customers Look to Partners for Good Cybersecurity Guidance and Best Practices
The critical importance of collaborating with knowledgeable and experienced cybersecurity professionals cannot be underscored enough. These technology partners often offer customers the expertise and solutions that are typically not available in-house.
At Dell Technologies, they understand that your customers require the necessary foundation to be established before they can work with you to start building a cybersecurity ecosystem for your customers that is ready for any – and all threats that come their way.
Dell is renowned not only for its cyber resilient infrastructure and client solutions, but also for their world-class professional services, from monitoring and threat detection services to incident response. These services can complement and augment partners’ own services offering. Dell sports a partner ecosystem that is built upon a rock solid and secure supply chain over many years. Additionally, they offer an industry leading flexible consumption model through their Dell APEX data protection and cyber recovery services.
Learn more here how you can partner with Dell to take advantage of their end-to-end partner ecosystem, thus enabling you to empower your customers to securely drive innovation from everywhere.
*Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024, Ponemon Institute/IBM, ©2024 IBM
