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5 Cybersecurity Seeds to Plant for a Secure Tomorrow

Building strong cybersecurity doesn’t require fancy tools or a Hollywood-style war room. Often, it just takes the basics ‒ done really well. Think of it like gardening: healthy habits, applied consistently, create deep roots that protect your business when storms roll in. Here are five essential practices that every organization ‒ from small MSPs to midsize enterprises ‒ should plant today to ensure a secure tomorrow.

Proactive Identity Security: Addressing Unmanaged Endpoint Risks

When an electrician comes to fix something in your house, you wouldn’t just hand over the keys and leave. Instead, you’d stay to supervise and ensure everything is done correctly. Similarly, unmanaged endpoints accessing sensitive corporate data, such as contractor laptops, personal computers and call center systems, require the same level of oversight.

From endpoint to XDR: Operationalize Microsoft Defender for Endpoint data in Elastic Security

Enhance your threat detection, investigation, and response by integrating Microsoft Defender for Endpoint data with Elastic Security. Many security teams often find it difficult to detect and respond to threats because of fragmented visibility and isolated endpoint data. This challenge led to the development of extended detection and response (XDR), which integrates endpoint insights with contextualized data from networks, cloud environments, and identity systems.

Integrating GitOps into your Security Operations

Security operations are evolving—and they have a lot to gain from the principles of modern software engineering. GitOps, a development-centric approach that leverages version control and automation, is now reshaping how security teams operate: with speed, consistency, and transparency.

Get More from Defender with WatchGuard Core MDR for Microsoft

Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are increasingly becoming prime targets for cybercriminals, accounting for 46% of all cyber breaches impacting companies with fewer than 1,000 employees. With an alarming 30,000 small business websites compromised daily and the average user receiving 1.5 malicious emails, the reality is clear: it's not a matter of if your business will face a cyber threat, but when.