The Empire
Can’t Strike
Back

The definition of disaster in business? Downtime due to a cyberattack. This not only can affect your income; it also can ruin your reputation or cause your clients to scamper away.

The Crappy News

1. Cyberbullies Aren’t Going Away

Rather, they’re getting more cunning every year—especially now that many companies have transformed to a fully remote or hybrid workplace. When your endpoints (phones, computers, printers, and the like) are in various locations, they’re more exposed to attacks. And they come at businesses with a host of weapons, like malware, ransomware, spyware, phishing, and more.

We don’t mean to scare you, but you should be aware of some recent facts:

  • Cyberattacks increased by 50% in 2021 vs. 2020.
  • 43% of all cyberattacks are aimed at small/medium businesses, but only 14% are prepared to defend themselves.
  • 66% of small/medium businesses experienced a cyber-attack in the past 12 months.

2. Not All Data Breaches Are Caused by Outside Cyberattacks

In fact, there’s a variety of ways breaches can occur internally, some of which are innocent mishaps:

  • A flaw in the company password policy
  • Lost or stolen devices
  • An employee falls prey to a phishing email 
  • A “malicious insider” who shares company data with outsiders
  • An “insider accident” where an employee accesses a co-worker’s laptop or other device

The Nifty News

With BrightDefense, we can shield you against cyber threats.

In fact, we’re known for our cybersecurity expertise. You see, we’ve developed a multi-ingredient “secret sauce”, or “cyber stack” of highly sophisticated digital tools designed to send the bad guys packing.

Our cyber stack wraps a forcefield around your resources and your data from all angles:

(Um, pardon the “geek speak” below …just in case there’s a term you don’t know, we’ve put together a handy glossary of cybersecurity terms here):

  • Network security monitoring
  • Network access control (network traffic analyzer)
  • Network security monitoring
  • Cloud security
  • Website monitoring
  • Application security
  • Web filtering

  • Anti-virus & malware updates
  • Application security patches
  • Information security
  • Email security
  • Spam filter
  • Cloud backup and archiving
  • Email tenant monitoring

  • Operational security
  • EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response)
  • Ransomware protection
  • Office 365 security
  • Log security monitoring 
  • Disaster recovery
  • End-user education


To learn more about BrightDefense, just give us a holler. We’re ready to fight the Evil Empire for you.

Dropsuite:

Dropsuite is a cloud software platform enabling businesses and organizations globally to easily backup, recover and protect their important business information including emails, contacts, calendars and OneDrive/Sharepoint files. Compliant email backup and archive system with a 10-year retention policy.

Vade Secure:

Vade Secure is an AI-based email security solution to improve security for Office 365 and block advanced phishing, spear phishing, and advanced malware threats. Vade Secure analyzes emails, webpages, attachments, and images with machine learning and deep learning algorithms that are trained to detect behaviors and anomalies common to advanced email threats.

Office Protect:

Office Protect is a service that’s designed to help you secure your Microsoft 365 tenant. Using our powerful in-house security software, our analysts actively monitor for threats, investigate alerts, eliminate false positives, and provide guided response and remediation. Protects against account break-ins, data exfiltration, business email compromise, phishing, internal threats, lateral movement, ransomware, and attacks by nation states.

Dark Cubed:

Dark Cubed focuses on real-time monitoring, threat intelligence, predictive analytics, elegant dashboard, streamlined workflow, executive reporting and active blocking. This is another layer of security that integrates with the firewall.

ThreatLocker:

ThreatLocker is a zero-trust endpoint security tool giving companies control over what software can run, by whom, and what data can be accessed.

It keeps a full detailed audit of what applications are used and data accessed/transferred/deleted and by what users (signature tracking, etc.) If something unusual happens, such as a signature change, or a user opens an application that is out of their normal routine the administrator is alerted. This is a crucial tool in identifying malware threats, as well as helping organizations identify if users are accessing applications and/or data/ files they should not be.

ThreatLocker provides a solution that allows businesses to control the content that runs on their network. Unlike AntiVirus software ThreatLocker is not looking for known viruses or malware. ThreatLocker uses a complex set of rules to determine what can be executed on a network and stops anything that has not been approved before it can even execute.

Huntress:

Huntress is a supplement to SentinelOne. Hackers are becoming more sophisticated, and Huntress actively seeks out these threat actors with a "defend forward" mentality. This software combines both advanced security tools along with human intervention to ensure even the most advanced hackers can't penetrate your network.

SentinelOne:

SentinelOne is a comprehensive enterprise security platform that provides threat detection, hunting, and response features that enable organizations to discover vulnerabilities and protect IT operations. SentinelOne integrates static artificial intelligence (AI) to provide real-time endpoint protection and reduce false positives that derail investigations or make threat detection a capital-intensive process. This will replace Webroot in your current environment.