You won’t be able to do everything all at once, so understanding what the biggest areas of risk are and how they can be addressed is key -helping to identify quick wins that will have the biggest impact. Remember that most attacks are opportunistic, so taking time to ensure you have the right basic controls in place will swiftly move you into a more secure position.

Setting goals and measurable targets will help to ensure the project stays on track, while also giving you vital information on which controls are having the most impact. No business has an endless budget: you need to know what is moving the needle and having the greatest impact. This can help to guide future investment and increase RoI on your security tooling.

By considering security at the outset of every project, it is easier to embed secure practices than trying to retrofit them down the line. Equally, overhauling legacy SOC processes can help to ensure you can use new tooling effectively -creating templates for how security should look. For instance, by embedding security to the seam of the data pipeline you can create a ‘golden image’ for every other machine to replicate, so they inherit the same level of security.

Technology moves fast as we know, so embedding a continuous learning culture is key to success. This includes updating processes and standards to become multi-cloud, whilst staying secure, through to investing in training and certification to ensure engineers are up to date on cloud security -right through to ensuring users understand their role as new threats emerge.