The adage ‘it takes a village’ is true in its intention. Great things come from a village’s accumulated intellect, education, and experience. Just as in governing a village, today’s executives are charged with multiple tasks and huge burdens of responsibility. The required inward and outward facing roles within a business are often managed (although sometimes less fluidly than preferred) by single resources attempting to accomplish complex multitasking, while trying to respect a work/life balance.
This level of juggling often keeps executives busy managing the daily innuendos, and administrative staff busy supporting the vast needs of the organization. Due to this, focusing on cyber safety and security is one area of business that is pivotal, though often neglected.
The Roles in IT Security
Contracting in business creates partnerships where joining forces enables both parties to complete projects, increase expertise, or fill other gaps in departmental resources. Adding diversity through contracting means partnering with a provider who can give you the fast track to their level of certification, share their warehouses and datacenters, and instill continuity by performing the roles they know best. This gives the company workforce time to focus on the needs and responsibilities that support and grow the business.
Job requirements within the world of cybersecurity are rapidly changing and expanding. To employ a viable team of attentive, well-versed professionals that manage IT security adequately and appropriately may prove to be a challenge, and an expensive one at that.
Some of the roles in today’s cybersecurity world include:
While it is possible for one person to manage several roles within the cybersecurity platform, it is important to use resources and staff wisely. Many companies are unable to employ large teams of IT security experts. Putting the talent in place to protect from a breach, for example, is far easier, smarter, and cheaper than having to find the tools to recover from one. Contracting can provide the skills and coverage needed to monitor for, report on, and respond to unwelcome events.
In cybersecurity, or IT departments as a whole, a constant battle is waged between daily operational control and management, and the many other projects that improve protection and resilience. Utilizing consultants to supplement operational staffing frees-up experienced personnel for strategy development and project delivery. Consultants providing subject matter expertise on projects or new initiatives is a cost-effective way to accelerate timelines and bring in industry knowledge.
Just as minimizing security risks and being prepared in the event of a cyber breach, having a plan on when and how to utilize external resources to assist with improvements for a security program is essential in today’s fast-paced environment.
Employing a partner in your cybersecurity arena is a helpful, productive measure in assuring that your business is protected from a breach or attack. It affords your current team more focus on the core of their duties, while employing experts to do what they do best.
Partnering with a minority-owned cybersecurity team such as Cayuse, however, offers opportunities in many more ways.
The credential of Minority-Owned Business Enterprise (MBE) is indicative of a quality, experienced partner. Before a company can become a diversity provider, or MBE, stringent requirements and reviews are completed. The rigor of gaining MBE status, does come with rewards. Exclusive offers are available to MBEs such as access to networking opportunities, supplier databases, purchasing agents, and connections to nationally recognized organizations. Incentives such as tax breaks and grants are other bonuses received through MBE status.
Employing diversity affords businesses a blending of ideas, education, training, and experience that encompasses and delivers tremendous value to those involved. Cayuse isn’t diverse simply by name or founder. We employ our diversity. As a Native American-owned and operated U.S.-based company, we want to share our vast knowledge and professionalism while offering our founders, board members, and Native American employees the ability to maintain life with their families on their home land - the reservation.
The Cayuse team is backed by large, international consulting firm experience. We bring value-driven results to our clients, supported by credentials from past engagements, tenure, and deep industry knowledge. We may be smaller than the large international firms, however our diversity and talent outweigh their size and international reach.
There are wonderful benefits in combining talent, diversity, and business savvy with a cybersecurity consulting and staffing partner like Cayuse. Allowing for IT operational deliverables in conjunction with the ability to focus on managing your business needs and growth is a balance that companies need and deserve.
Some might use their minority status as a ‘hook’ to lure partners in, representing a misalignment between credentials and the diversity that provided for them. Cayuse is proud of our roots and our talent. We are a small, American company that is big on respecting and valuing partnerships, while sharing knowledge, teamwork, experience, and diversity.
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