Your premier partner for IT and Cyber Security Solutions: Entara

Founded in 2001, Entara, formerly YJT Solutions, is an eXtended Service Provider (XSP) focused on providing cutting edge technology and cyber security solutions to companies in regulated industries, including the financial sector. With Entara’s roots in providing service to the electronic trading market, the company is known for growing with the pace of technological change and the developing security needs of its clients. Entara has redefined itself - and its industry - and created a new class of service providers, XSPs, because Entara recognizes that MSPs and MSSPs are no longer what clients need. Downward pressure from both regulators and insurance providers convinced Entara that it was time to integrate its IT and cyber security offerings and deliver strategic, future facing solutions for clients.

Entara is doubling down on making investments in future to better serve clients by:

• Meticulously evaluating new toolsets and security solutions and selecting and integrating the best ones into Entara’s service management platform
• Putting a larger emphasis on cyber security while also evaluating the line between usability and security
• Hiring tomorrow’s leaders and giving them the opportunities and resources to grow
• Building a first-class bridge comprised of tools, people, processes, and culture where IT integrates into your business and drives automation and innovation

Entara announced the launch of their new Incident Response (IR) Retainer service, an offering that provides instantaneous access to Entara’s best-in-class incident recovery team. In the event of a security incident, minutes wasted can mean millions of dollars loss for an organization. Entara’s IR Retainer allows organizations to fast track their response by having a team of experts at the ready to respond within 5-minutes and immediately begin containing the breach.

Over the past three years, Entara has executed over 100,000 hours of professional service hours across 200 incident response projects. With a specialization in infrastructure recovery, Entara is the go-to resource for organizations that need experts in the field who can efficiently fast track containment of a breach.

“The Incident Response Retainer is a pivotal service to add to our offerings for our clients,” said Entara Director of Professional Services, Michael Brunetti. “Leading our incident response team, I have witnessed firsthand the importance of immediate containment and response to a security incident. A breach has the potential to be devastating to a company – but it really doesn’t have to be. Our new IR Retainer will help clients recover quickly from a security incident by proactively putting a response plan in place and providing the recovery team staged access and permissions within the environment.”

The Entara IR Retainer includes three tiers of service: Standard, Advanced, and Premium. Each tier includes a basic infrastructure audit, IR plan documentation, a full onboarding, and a deployment of a hardened Jump Box, which remains disabled until remote access and privileged accounts are needed to respond to a breach. The Advanced and Premium tiers also include services such as the option to use the retainer for proactive services as well as increased documentation and monthly backup and snapshot checks.

In addition, for all tiers of the service, Entara guarantees a 5-minute response time, which includes:

• Incident Response and Management
• Infrastructure Recovery
• Digital Forensics 
• Threat Actor Negotiation
• Breach Notification
• Security Assessments
• Tabletop Exercises
• Disaster Recover and Business Continuity planning
• Incident Response planning 
• Infrastructure Hardening and IR Readiness Assessment

“It is has been incredible to watch Entara evolve and make a commitment to providing next level security services for our clients,” said Entara CEO and President, Pamela Diaz. “Our IR Retainer is just the latest example of Entara’s commitment to making security accessible to all organizations, regardless of industry, insurance status, or company size.”

With more companies moving to fully remote or hybrid work schedules, businesses of all sizes should be thinking about what security measures they have in place to mitigate the impact of cyber threats. The dangerous combination of bad actors leveraging malware and human error demonstrates the need for a security-first mindset to be ingrained across every aspect of your organization. Here are some tips to integrate a security mindset in your IT ops team.

Start at the Top

A security mindset should start at the top, with company leadership taking an active role in supporting cyber security programs and incorporating them into their existing organizational practices. Executives should work directly with the IT Ops team and emphasize accountability across-the-board. Whether it is your CISO or a security partner, like a vCISO, cyber security best practices and concerns should be factored into all company initiatives, in the case of operational, financial, or technical decisions.  

Employee Awareness

Employees are one of the first lines of defense against a cyber-security attack, so it is crucial to provide routine training to minimize instances of human error that lead to breaches. Your IT Ops team must educate employees on their individual role in your organization’s cyber security and encourage everyone to follow best practices, like logging into a secure VPN or using multifactor authentication (MFA), to support protecting files, passwords, and other corporate assets.  

In order for cyber security awareness training to be effective, training completion needs to be encouraged and monitored. Employees at your organization need to understand that a part of their job is protecting the organization from risk. They must be held just as accountable for maintaining the cyber safety of their organization as they are for creating a respectful and safe working environment for their colleagues.

Entara: Your Partner For IT And Cyber Security Solutions

Entara offers complete, integrated IT and cyber security solutions tailored to your company’s unique needs and challenges. The company employs a range of security integrations and technology services to better protect your system, network, and data. Connect with Entara to learn more about how it can support your organization.

Pam Diaz, CEO & PRESIDENT

“We anticipate your IT and cyber security needs before you know what they are.”