Large organizations are highly concerned with their security policies and strategies to make their business a great success. For that they plan each and every thing prior with complete management and take some serious steps to make full proof security plans.

Nowadays, security plan is highly critical to any company, as it is directly related to the company’s image in the market. Security planning plays a key role in the company’s business and fame, there are many companies eagerly working to improve their strategies to become more successful and trustworthy for their customers in term of one’s privacy and data security.

Today we are going to discuss those common practices and strategies of the most highly secure companies.

Know the Right Threats

There are thousands of threats evolving for the companies that are of different severity, we can’t assume any threat as irrelevant and allow its propagation into our networks. For that Organizations with effective security habits conducts an audit and prepare a priority list for those threats. The most severe threats are placed on top and are processed first. Rather than working on each and every threat simultaneously can leave the threat unprocessed or left in-between. To effectively minimize the risk, start considering which threat needs your focus and which threats can be handled later.

First Remove to Reduce the Threats

First remove what you don’t need, then reduce the risk from what you have. Eliminate the unneeded data first. All the software and hardware need to check regularly for their failure and risk regarding updating. Always try to seek whether if a device hardware or software can be eliminated or not, this can reduce the number of risk generation and simultaneously can help us to secure the rest more effectively.

Use the Latest Version of Software and Hardware

The highly secure companies rely on their tools they use and the services they purchased. Once the company purchases new hardware, OS, applications and tool sets, they must look ahead to update it regularly because the latest software updates contain new security measures. They should also consider replacement of their old inventory to the latest software and hardware as they comes with the latest security features built-in and sometime as default configuration.

Monitor continuously and Provide Timely Response

Most of the event logs are viewed after the hacking incident occurs; companies should focus on monitoring the event logs to prevent attacks. Highly effective security habits include continuous monitoring of event logs and other systems that are used to detect any privilege activity over the network. Moreover, by only monitoring, the threat is not resolved. The timely response is also critical as response after the incident can only reduce the effect. The company should work on providing timely response so that threat can be prevented right away upon detection.

Quick and Effective Decisions

Companies with higher security concerns tend their employees to take accountability and ownership to their task and work done. This is the only way to motivate the employees to do changes for the betterment and completion of their task. Lack of accountability and ownership lead towards the inability to take decisions quickly as it require complete chain of command.

The strong and secure companies encourage their employees to balance between control and the ability to take decisions. This helps to deploy changes and decision more quickly and increase employee’s effectiveness.

By adopting these simple strategies and learning from the mistakes that usually small organizations and companies do, we can learn a lot that how we can improve our security postures and effectively secure our organization like other highly secured companies are doing.