How Security Fusion protects your business

The cost of a security incident grows exponentially the longer it goes undetected. In 2024, for instance, data breaches continued to have an increasingly high price tag, with the average cost reaching $4.62 million.1 To move forward on your organization’s security maturity path, having a clear vision is crucial. We call this vision Security Fusion. By adopting it, you can improve your security operations capabilities, enabling you to monitor and protect both internal and external stakeholders.

Companies can usually handle the cybersecurity and risk management of internal workstations, networks, servers, and clouds. With external stakeholders, many rely on mere compliance. Going with a compliance approach, in essence, is telling your service providers or other stakeholders:

“You need to be doing things our way – or else.”

While compliance is essential, it often falls short of addressing the dynamic nature of cyber threats. A breach affecting your vendor or service provider can lead to significant costs, far exceeding any contractual compensation. The longer an incident goes undetected, the higher the costs of dealing with it get.

The following graph illustrates the monetary business impact in relation to the response time. There is a significant difference in the business impact of a breach, whether it has been detected before the environment has been infiltrated or whether critical systems have been hit by ransomware. When done correctly, proactive preventive measures take care of the cyber threat and ensure that the breach doesn’t happen in the first place.

Proactive defense against threats is the most cost-efficient way of managing cybersecurity. This can be a scenario where threat intelligence delivers an early warning to an organization regarding an imminent threat, and the organization takes appropriate measures before the threat becomes an actual breach.

However, despite organisations’ efforts to protect their environments with efficient security measures, the harsh reality is that something always gets through. The faster a breach is eradicated, the lower its total cost. In the best-case scenario, a threat is eradicated before it infiltrates your infrastructure. Depending on the response time, the implications can vary from isolating a single host to completely rebuilding the entire IT infrastructure.

Organisations are often likely to share business-critical intellectual property in their supply chains daily. If you operate in a B2B environment, your customers expect a robust monitoring capability that considers the external parts of your environment. If you do business in B2C, your customers expect their personal data to be protected.

Now, knowing the risks posed to your business by the external stakeholders in your value chain, what can you do about them?

 

Security Fusion: Our solution and the path we walk with you

The fact is that detection and response are simply not enough to keep up with threats. As cyber threats multiply and diversify, so do the types of cyber-attackers and the vulnerabilities they seek to exploit. As a result, organizations need a more proactive and comprehensive approach to cybersecurity. This is where a Security Operations Centre (SOC), a core element of our Security Fusion model, comes into play.

A Security Operations Centre (SOC) is a dedicated team that continuously monitors, prevents, detects, investigates, and responds to cyber threats, ensuring your company remains secure.  

Typically, cybersecurity is fragmented and based on point solutions: critical IT assets are managed by different IT operators in separate silos. Security Fusion is our vision with the aim to overcome these silos. We aspire to work as a fully trusted partner of your security organisation with a broad mandate to monitor and manage your internal and external stakeholders.

Let’s say your data centre provider’s employee, John, sits on highly privileged access rights to your environment. One day, John gets spear-phished, and suddenly, you find your environment “ransomwared” or intellectual property stolen.

With a Security Fusion approach, you would have had the chance to notice a vulnerability in your own environment and mandate your external network to patch the same issue.

 

Enhancing your security maturity one level at a time

In practice, it really boils down to building a best-fit combination of our services, helping you protect endpoints, networks, critical applications, operational technology, and others. Our portfolio of services, which ranges from EDR to XDR, NDR to AppSOC, and OT Defense to Attack Surface Management, is the solution for accomplishing this.

Security Fusion will be the North Star for our journey with you, and we’ll always meet you where you are, regardless of your starting point. On the path toward this North Star, we will encounter the myriad of capabilities we offer our customers daily. These capabilities encompass all the relevant operative cybersecurity domains in your environment, from endpoints to networks and from critical applications to operational technology (OT). 

The following image shows the combination of our services that can be implemented as you advance from one security maturity level to the next.

 

• Level 1 – You have some technology creating incidents and alerts but not an enterprise-grade 24/7 capability to detect and respond to them.
• Level 2 – You have a 24/7 SOC and endpoint detection and response (EDR) in place but find yourself continuously running faster just to keep up with the growing attack surface.
• Level 3 – You’ve covered basic IT hygiene by adopting an ecosystem with an extended detection and response (XDR) approach to security operations and by also managing vulnerabilities proactively.
• Level 4 – You run a tight cyber-shop. You’ve covered all the basics, including your key applications and any production sites.
• Level 5 – You are industry-leading in cyber. You’re able to counter most threats in your own environment, but the external parts of your value chain aren’t covered with an equally sophisticated and mature approach.

The goal we aim to achieve together with you on your security maturity journey is the state of Security Fusion. It is an ever-evolving objective, and thus, we can never truly declare the mission fully accomplished. We are here as your cybersecurity services provider, proactively overseeing and managing the security of your entire IT ecosystem. This strategy allows us to coordinate multiple internal and external service providers, delivering seamless, end-to-end security services tailored to meet your requirements.

We provide centralized visibility, real-time threat detection, and effective incident response across your IT landscape. Our model enhances compliance management through comprehensive reporting and audit trails while lowering costs by automating security management tasks.

Furthermore, we work closely with your service integrator, offering guidance and expertise to bolster your overall security posture. By combining proactive measures with strategic oversight, our Security Fusion strategy ensures robust defense mechanisms and seamless integration of security protocols across your organization's IT infrastructure.

 

What’s critical to you is critical to us

It still takes an average of 199 days for an organization to identify and 73 days to contain a data breach². What you want to hear is that an attempted breach was detected without any damage materialising, as active countermeasures were applied, and protective measures are in place to prevent that attack vector in the future.

This is how we safeguard your critical, enabling your business to thrive.

 

Ready to elevate your cybersecurity? Contact us to explore how Security Fusion can safeguard your business and drive your security maturity forward.

 

[1] IBM: Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024

[2] IBM: Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024