What is a user?
If you are an employer, the simplest answer is an employee. If you work in technology a user could be characterized as someone using a computer. However, I think defining a user in those terms is no longer adequate. Those two definitions are viewed from two entirely different perspectives. Today, a user should be synonymous with the term “target”. If your business or Managed Services Provider does not view users as targets and place a greater emphasis on protecting the systems they use, then you are exposed to a massive vulnerability.
For over a decade now, bad actors have adjusted their targeting with a greater focus on users. One of the primary contributions to this shift is referred to as “temporal discounting” which is also known as the time to reward ratio. The success and profitability of a modern attack nets far greater results when compromising a user instead of the network perimeter.
As a result, the security of a user’s computer (endpoint) has become of greater importance. With COVID, the network perimeter has been pushed outward. It is ambiguous. It is no longer defined by a single address but transcends country borders and time zones.
If your employee’s computer is no longer behind a firewall, what are you doing to protect it? If your employees are exposed to things like social engineering, spam SMS text messages, embedded email links, or phishing emails, what are you doing to protect them? All of this begs a final question: What are you really doing to protect your business?
Today, your business needs to place a significantly greater value on how it goes about protecting its endpoints and end users.
Each year Auxzillium sits down with its clients and reviews their cybersecurity position. During these meetings Auxzillium provides various recommendations. Adapting to the changes in technology and new threats as they emerge has been paramount to our success as an MSP.
Solutions like security awareness training, content filtering, advanced threat protection, security orchestration automation and response, web filtering, and multifactor authentication are only a few of the solutions Auxzillium has deployed in its efforts to protect the end user and their endpoints.
An MSP should never make a distinction between clients when it comes to the cybersecurity of their employees and computer assets. At Auxzillium we place profound importance on the standardization of our cybersecurity stack. When partnering with Auxzillium you can be certain that as new threats emerge we are already exploring ways to account for, adapt to, and defend your business from them. Contact Us Today
