Digital Risk Protection (DRP) is an important process to install to ensure that your digital assets are protected.
DRP ensures that your increasing array of digital elements are protected from cyberattacks and cybercriminals. With more data, more remote work, and more attacks, DRP is a critical element of your cybersecurity.
What is Digital Risk Protection?
DRP builds upon what’s learned in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) processes to identify and highlight protections that can be applied to secure your digital information. Together, CTI and DRP create a powerful one-two punch to prevent and defend against attacks.
Working on a digital platform, DRP algorithms act in real time to find, track and analyze threats. With DRP deployed, businesses can receive analysis of risks and potential or looming attacks.
Digital Risk Protection Services (DRPS) are solutions provided by third parties as part of comprehensive managed services solutions offering services such as help desk support and software updating. DRPS help maintain protection of all external boundaries of a business’ technology stack.
Four Parts of DRP
There are four key elements to a DRP solution:
Map
Technology is everywhere in your organization. With digital footprint mapping, all digital assets and connected systems are mapped.
The process helps your organization
identify potential attack vectors, whether within your system or part of an external assault, such as ones embedded in third-party supply-chain partners.
Monitor
Organizations face a constant barrage of assaults from new attackers. A DRPS will monitor every aspect of your digital stack, and the external digital elements you interact with, whether it’s the surface web, deep web or even dark web.
Manage
In addition to the ever-present monitoring and mapping, you want a DRPS solution that will implement your policies and research additional threats, leaving your organization well prepared for any eventuality.
Difference Between Cyber Threat Intelligence and DRPS
Threat intelligence and DRPS are similar, though distinct practices in cybersecurity.
Threat intelligence is a static process that focuses on risk prevention. It uses tools that monitor attack surfaces and remediation management, along with third-party security ratings.
DRPS is a much more dynamic, ongoing solution that builds on top of threat assessment tasks. Its focus is the detection, prevention and response to cyber threats. DRPS focuses on multiple types of monitoring, including for:
- Data leaks
- Data breaches
- Account impersonations
- Compromised brands
- Fraud campaigns
- Reputational damage
Both processes closely monitor social media, because it is such a critical intersection of internal systems and outside interactions.
How to Know if Your Business Needs Digital Risk Protection
Your business needs digital risk protection if it is worried about potential damage from cyberattacks or is subject to regulatory mandates related to data security.
Businesses that highlight the protection of customer data or who tout their cybersecurity are also wise to use DRPS as part of their IT managed services.
Want to learn more about digital risk protection and how to secure your digital assets? Contact ConsultNet, which provides comprehensive IT solutions, from help desk to cybersecurity. ConsultNet offers an array of IT strategy and staffing solutions and can help transform your organization’s technology to meet critical business needs.
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