Learn how our steadfast approach at StrataDefense leverages efficiency and compliance-ready reporting. Ensure your community bank has the foundations of a strong cybersecurity posture and what you can look for in a strong technology partner. We share valuable insights for banks in the featured article “Simplifying Technology and Network Security for Community Banks,” in Great Lakes Banker.

Celebrate National Clean-Out Your Computer Day by taking time to organize and declutter your digital lives. As you work through the ideas on how to help keep clean machines, we challenge you to go one step further and be attentive to where your sensitive data is located and compare that against your cybersecurity plan. 

It’s essential to respect data privacy and understand how your business manages data. You need to understand the types of data your business interacts with and the location of that data; plus, implement and manage policies around those learnings. Remember to continue to check for and understand vulnerabilities in your systems. When you identify issues, you need to fix them immediately.

A business VPN includes more features than a consumer VPN to ensure your systems and data are protected. You need to have controls to help manage employees and their connections, so they don’t expose sensitive company data.

Your business network security solution should be hard to breach, routinely assessed or scanned, and built with a layered security approach. Your organization should have controls in place that ensure proactive and reactive action plans to keep your entire network functioning.