The Benefits of Cybersecurity Collaboration: Achieving a Unified and Strategic Approach

Cybersecurity collaboration is vital. It promotes increased visibility into security posture, efficient incident response, cross-team collaboration, and better communication at the business level. With these changes benefits like Cost-Effective Resource Allocation, Informed Decision-Making, Streamlined Compliance Management, and more are attainable.

Cybersecurity Collaboration promotes…

Increased Visibility into Security Posture

Cybersecurity collaboration promotes increased visibility into security posture. collaboration breaks down the silos which provides more visibility into security threats by allowing for better communication and more sharing of information between teams. This form of visibility helps with making decisions that are holistically informed. collaboration also provides better visibility into vulnerabilities for the same reason. With better visibility into security vulnerabilities, organizations can better understand the risk associated with each security vulnerability making their priorities more informed and accurate. With increased visibility, operational risks are lowered because there is a clear and routine way of transmitting information. With lowered operational risks and increased visibility into operational risks, allocating the necessary resources for security operations and concerns is more straightforward. To avoid the limited view into security posture that silos encourage, adopt cybersecurity collaboration. 

Efficient Incident Response

Cybersecurity collaboration promotes efficient incident response. collaboration includes defining interdepartmental roles and management teams for incident response. When promoting collaboration is a goal from the start, sharing information during an incident is achieved with greater success because the departments and teams already have a working relationship. This working relationship allows for collaboration and interdepartmental understanding of individual departments’ tools/platforms. Collaboration and coordination allow organizations to have clear and consistent goals throughout the organization. These practices also allow for aligning priorities throughout the organization. Silos can lead to inefficiencies in incident response, even a delayed response which can cause greater financial and reputational risk or damage.

Cross-Team Collaboration

Cybersecurity collaboration promotes cross-team collaboration. Cross-team collaboration can lead to innovation and learning. When different teams join forces they can discover creative and innovative solutions to complex problems. Cross-departmental relationships offer great advantages for organizations because relationships can lead to team members learning skills from one another that can be useful for their respective roles. Regular cross-team collaboration can also promote teams to develop a common language to communicate more effectively. With a common language, navigating complicated topics can be simplified. collaboration promotes cross-team collaboration which can promote camaraderie. Trust and empathy at work allow for a cyber-secure culture to grow and become more resilient and aware of cybersecurity risks. Silos can cause team collaboration to be artificial and at surface level. This leads to less effective problem solving.

Communication at the Business Level/ Business Value Communication

Cybersecurity collaboration promotes better communication at the business level. With a culture of cybersecurity awareness and team collaboration, communication at the business level is streamlined because information about organizations’ security goals and experiences are shared and easy to attain. The information is also more cohesive between security teams due to the common knowledge effect of cross-team collaboration. Business value communication is important because funding for an organization's cybersecurity program depends on it. With silos and without cybersecurity collaboration there is increased financial risk. With less funding there is also reputational risk because the organization will have less resources to draw from when facing threats and may therefore experience more damage to both the organization and the organization's reputation of being secure.

Benefits of Cybersecurity Collaboration

Cost-Effective Resource Allocation

With cybersecurity collaboration it's easier to allocate resources cost-effectively because there is more visibility into an organization’s cybersecurity program. With increased visibility an organization can better untangle all of the aspects involved and interpret where they need more resources. For example, with more efficient incident response, less resources will need to be allocated for this aspect. Additionally, cross-team collaboration can potentially help an organization realize redundancies. These cost-effective qualities can help with business value and resource allocation communication.

Informed Decision-Making

With cybersecurity collaboration, informed decision-making is simpler because there is more visibility. This is great for business value communication because there is more data to show that the decisions that were made were reasonable. It is also important to note that efficient incident response and cross-team collaboration are very closely related to decision making and sharing accurate information.

Proactive Threat Detection

With greater visibility an organization will gain better threat detection. This helps lead to efficient incident response. Cross-team collaboration can be helpful for threat detection because of greater communication abilities through the use of a common language for navigating complicated topics. Proactive threat detection is supporting evidence for showing how proactive an organization’s cybersecurity program is at the business level.

Streamlined Compliance Management

With all of the new compliances, streamlined management through collaborat ion is efficient and cost-effective. Cross-team collaboration can help implement this and it will be beneficial during communication at the business level because it will show how the organization’s cybersecurity management is neatly organized so that it is compliant and straightforward.

Cybersecurity collaboration is an undertaking and it can change an organization’s cybersecurity program. It’s important to record this change for reports.

Onyxia’s Cybersecurity Management Platform can help to record this change. Organizations can measure the effects and benefits through CPIs over time. Predictive AI-insights, benchmarking, and security stack maps are other features that can help. Automated board reporting is built so that CISOs can fully utilize the transparency and visibility to their advantage and report clearly.