Nowadays ransomware is ravaging across multiple industries. As CISO of a publicly traded company I would ensure my engineers and staff install and maintain an anti-virus solution that has ransomware protection. Additionally, our team would have real-time redundant backups of our systems. We would have off site backups for a warm or cold swap as well. Backups protect availability against most data corruption and various attacks.

However, there is not only a need to focus on losing availability due to attacks. Our team would implement the best networking solutions we can afford in order to maintain optimal uptime. Keeping our customer data protected and secure is a top priority but we can not forget the fundamentals when it comes to availability.