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Risk in Context Podcast: Better Cyber Hygiene Through Security Controls

In this episode of Marsh’s Risk in Context podcast, Marsh’s Rachel Lavender is joined by MOXFIVE’s Jeff Chan and CrowdStrike Services’ Shelly Geisbrecht for a look at the cybersecurity controls companies can adopt and implement to improve their cyber hygiene.

25/10/2021

With cyberattacks growing in size and complexity — and underwriters more closely scrutinising their cyber risk exposures — it’s vital that businesses invest in robust cybersecurity controls.

In this episode of Marsh’s Risk in Context podcast, Marsh’s Rachel Lavender is joined by MOXFIVE’s Jeff Chan and CrowdStrike Services’ Shelly Giesbrecht for a look at the cybersecurity controls companies can adopt and implement to improve their cyber hygiene.

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Key takeaways

Three cyber hygiene controls are increasingly tied to insurability and resiliency: endpoint detection and response, multifactor authentication, and backups.

Endpoint detection and response (EDR) can provide crucial visibility across all systems in a corporate technology environment.

It helps prevent bad actors from gaining a foothold in IT systems. EDR is often not difficult to implement, and can be rolled out within a matter of days.

Secured, encrypted, and tested backups are essential to recovery after an attack, and threat actors are increasingly targeting such backups for deletion.

Companies can mitigate this risk by following the 3-2-1 backup rule: three copies of data, two different media types, and one offsite copy.

Multifactor authentication (MFA) can provide an extra layer of protection when employees and other users are using critical applications or accessing networks remotely.

But MFA can be difficult to implement, depending on how many users an organisation has, where they are located geographically, and how tech savvy they are.

About our speakers

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Rachel Lavender

US and Canada Cyber Brokerage Leader

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Jeffrey Chan

Senior Director, MOXFIVE

  • United States

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Shelly Giesbrecht

Incident Response, CrowdStrike

  • United States

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