Cyberattacks aren’t new, but the cyber threat landscape is constantly evolving.

The latest IBM Cost of a Data Breach report revealed the most common initial attack vectors are compromised credentials at 19%, phishing at 16%, and cloud misconfiguration at 15%. This means that the top 50% of initial attacks were caused by some type of human error.

On this episode of IT Availability Now, Sungard AS experts discuss what businesses must do to stay resilient in 2023. Listen to this full episode to learn:

• Why businesses must invest more in cybersecurity training for employees
• How organizations can prepare for the “human element” in their security posture
• How to build defenses to protect against your industry’s most pressing threats
• Why overlooking cybersecurity basics and headcount reduction could leave your business more vulnerable than ever 
• Why moving workloads to the public cloud doesn’t diminish the need for disaster recovery

Matt Parsons is Director of Network and Security Product Management at Sungard AS. Matt’s background and specialty is in network and security architectures, helping enterprises build secure, resilient, and highly available private and public cloud infrastructures.

As Security Consulting, Senior Manager at Sungard AS, Asher de Metz helps companies identify risks and secure their systems by conducting security audits and tests to avoid cybersecurity attacks. With almost 20 years of experience in information technology and security, Asher has been involved in hundreds of IT-security projects and has provided security counsel to some of the largest companies throughout the U.K., Europe, Middle East and North America within the financial, government, retail, healthcare, insurance and manufacturing industries. 

As a Security Consulting Solution Principal at Sungard AS, Robert Corso has a strong focus on assisting the sales team during client pursuits by providing solution development for Security solutions. He participates in solution implementations such as PCI Audits, Information Security Risk Assessment and CISO advisory services and provides expertise in the definition, design, implementation, and adoption of Sungard AS security solutions for clients.

Darpan Thaker is a cyber and IT resiliency thought leader with more than 25 years of experience in IT. He has been with Sungard Availability Services for more than nine years. Darpan has helped many organizations in successfully meeting their complex resiliency requirements. He was recently awarded with a patent for Recovery Maturity Index (RMI), which is a systematic process to determine status of IT disaster recovery maturity and areas of improvement based on a well-defined quantitative analysis.

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