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Nov 4, 2020

Cybersecurity recruitment: Offering digital protection your future demands

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Davalyn Corporation has the experience and the cybersecurity recruitment specialists required to bolster our clients’ digital defenses, keeping those most precious and fragile resources intact and growing. Contact us today to start building your cybersecurity leadership team, lead by David Kennedy.

Some of your most important and most powerful assets are digital. Keeping that data safe and out of the wrong hands makes having access to skilled cybersecurity talent vital to any business’s continued prosperity. What steps can your company take to improve their cybersecurity capabilities during this prolific era of digital transformation?

Communicate with Leadership 

To address potential cybersecurity risks, a company must develop a comprehensive cybersecurity risk plan. Setting forth the proper strategies and discerning what risks are acceptable is absolutely essential. Cybersecurity recruitment offers an opportunity to find an experienced leader who can work with and guide a company’s chief security and information officers in creating policies that empower everyone within the leadership structure to reduce cybersecurity risks. 

Follow Industry Standards

Industry standards are always changing, adapting to the conditions of the economic environment—no other place is that more relevant than in the ever-evolving cybersecurity space. A company must research and stay consistent on what is considered best practices for the industry when addressing threats to digital assets, while also consistently monitoring network activity and behaviors to determine where significant cybersecurity attacks are most likely to occur. Simply achieving a certification every year is not enough. Working with a cybersecurity recruitment team offers fresh and real-time perspectives on the skills and personalities needed to thrive in such a fast paced arena.

Thorough Risk Assessment

Identifying an organization’s critical digital assets is the first step in knowing how they might be exposed to cybersecurity attacks and how to best protect them. Thorough and efficient risk assessment will result in a company being able to set protocols, allocate security resources and implement those strategies customized for their individual cybersecurity needs. A cybersecurity recruitment team focused on attracting top cybersecurity leadership can help organizations fill the gaps, providing the leaders needed to train all employees in effective risk and incidence management and response. Making such training standard company practice will strengthen any measure risk assessment deems necessary.

After Assessment

Finding holes in a company’s cybersecurity defenses is one thing—understanding how to address them and how long it will take to achieve the optimum levels of defense and response is another. Establishing the proper metrics to determine the severity of a breach will allow for the proper allocation of manpower and time to address future attacks, avoiding under or over reaction. Developing constantly updated incident and disaster response plans is key to minimizing potential resource impacts.

Developing a Response Team

All of the latest cybersecurity tools are useless without the talent and the leadership to use them to their full potential. Experienced cybersecurity recruitment professionals will supply those individuals capable of identifying the tools and strategies that match current and incoming threats. When responding to digital threats, time is the most precious resource. Having a capable chief IT officer, chief security officer or a digitally experienced CEO will not only allow a company to respond effectively, but will also allow that organization to retain and train the personnel required for the continued creation of adaptive cybersecurity strategies.   


Davalyn Corporation has the experience and the cybersecurity recruitment specialists required to bolster our clients’ digital defenses, keeping those most precious and fragile resources intact and growing. Contact us today to start building your cybersecurity leadership team, lead by David Kennedy.

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