Assume Breach Strategy presentation – Jisc Security Conference 2021
Our Senior Network Engineer Duncan Ross recently presented on day 2 of the virtual Jisc Security Conference 2021, which ran 9th – 11th November 2021.
Duncan delivered an insightful presentation on the Assume Breach Strategy, and explained how IP Performance have helped their customers to implement this approach to Cyber Security.
Duncan discussed how the strategy has been incorporated into our SOCITM-approved Cyber Breach Workshop, our Swarm-SecOps security service and also specialised tools from our wider vendor portfolio such as Pentera’s Automated Security Validation platform. You can watch a recording of the presentation below:
So, what does Assume Breach mean?
It simply means that despite the confidence we have in our defensive protections, we assume adversaries and malicious actors can and will find a way to penetrate security defences, and then plan accordingly.
The strategy is comprised of 3 core pillars – War Games, Centralised Logging & Monitoring and Penetration Testing.
The Assume Breach Strategy enables security defences to be seen and evaluated from an attacker’s perspective, and includes penetration testing alongside other security tests to both discover and fix security vulnerabilities. By taking the ‘Assume Breach’ approach, organisations can proactively design and implement improved technical capabilities and also softer processes, enabling them to react quickly and efficiently during a (likely inevitable) cyber security or breach incident.
Please get in touch below, our friendly team of security experts will be pleased to explain how you and your organisation can also benefit from the assume breach methodology:
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I just wanted to take a moment to personally thank IP Performance for all your help and guidance during our recent upgrade project. Upgrading all three of our production clusters was a huge undertaking, especially with the amount of traffic they serve and thousands of services they deliver. Achieving this with zero downtime was no small feat and your expertise and quick responses were absolutely crucial in making it happen. It really felt like you were part of our team throughout this process and were more than just providing support but indeed kind of taking ownership of all the challenges and issues we had during this migration which we couldn’t have done as smoothly without your support.
Khalid Kamal,
European Bioinformatics Institute
