Cyber Defense Center: Reliable Protection Against Business Disruptions.

How can your company remain operational despite cyberattacks?

Cyber risks are among the most critical business risks today. Attacks are becoming more professional, faster, and more targeted. At the same time, IT landscapes, cloud environments, identities, endpoints, and interfaces are expanding. This makes it more challenging to detect security-related events in a timely manner and classify them correctly.

Many companies already have individual security solutions in place. Nevertheless, a centralized view of the current security situation is often lacking. Alerts originate from various locations. Responsibilities are not always clear. Incidents must be assessed, prioritized, and escalated as needed.

For executive management, the CIO, the CISO, and risk managers, one key question therefore arises: How can the company remain operational even in the event of a cyberattack? This is precisely where cyber resilience comes into play.

Why aren't individual security tools enough?

More security tools do not automatically mean greater security. If signals are not consolidated, evaluated, and consistently addressed, blind spots can arise. An attack may then go unnoticed or be detected too late.

The greatest danger often lies not in the individual attack, but in the time it takes to detect and respond to it. The longer an incident remains undetected, the greater the potential impact on operations, data, reputation, and customer trust.

Security must therefore be viewed more as a matter of operational capability. It’s not just about protection. It’s about detection, response, recovery, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Change: How does a Cyber Defense Center strengthen your cyber resilience?

The UMB Cyber Defense Center helps Swiss companies monitor security-related incidents around the clock, detect attacks early, and strengthen their response processes. The operational hub can be organized on an international basis. However, what is crucial for customer communication is the Swiss customer focus, UMB’s accountability, governance, and integration into the customer’s operations.

UMB combines security monitoring, managed detection and response, endpoint security, cloud security, networking, platforms, and managed services into a holistic approach to resilience. As a result, security is not managed in isolation but is understood as an integral part of the company’s operational capabilities.

This provides companies with greater clarity regarding their security posture, faster response times, and a stronger foundation for reducing risks and protecting their operations.

How Do You Develop an Effective Vision for Cyber Defense?

UMB analyzes the current security landscape, existing systems, key risks, and requirements for detection and response. This involves assessing which data sources are relevant, which threats are particularly critical, and which processes must function in the event of an incident.

Together with the client, a target state for cyber defense and cyber resilience is developed. This target state describes what should be monitored, which events are prioritized, who makes decisions, and how escalations are handled. Regulatory requirements, industry risks, and business-critical processes are also taken into account.

The result is not an abstract security concept, but a robust foundation for establishing or further developing an effective cyber defense operation.

How are detection, response, and escalation structured?

The defined protection and monitoring mechanisms are implemented both technically and organizationally. Relevant systems, log sources, endpoint solutions, network data, cloud environments, and security platforms are integrated and coordinated.

UMB provides support in establishing detection rules, escalation processes, incident response procedures, and organizational responsibilities. It is crucial that technical signals are translated into understandable and actionable information.

Implementation also involves collaboration between IT, security, business units, and management. Cyber defense only works if it is clear who is notified in the event of a specific incident, what measures are triggered, and how communication takes place during the incident.

How is cyber defense implemented and further developed in everyday life?

During operations, the UMB Cyber Defense Center continuously monitors security-related events. Anomalies are assessed, prioritized, and handled according to a defined process. The goal is to detect relevant threats early and reduce response time.

Ongoing operations also include the continuous improvement of monitoring, detection, reporting, and processes. Threat landscapes are constantly changing. Therefore, rules, data sources, protective measures, and operational processes must be regularly reviewed and adjusted.

This results in continuous security operations that not only protect companies on an ad hoc basis but also strengthen their resilience over the long term.

What role does cybersecurity play in business resilience?

Cybersecurity is evolving from a technical discipline focused on protection into a central component of corporate resilience. Companies that take a holistic approach to cyber defense can respond more quickly, better manage risks, and strengthen trust among customers, partners, and regulatory bodies.

UMB demonstrates how security, the cloud, networks, platforms, and managed services work together to ensure that companies remain capable of operating even in critical situations.

UMB Expertise and Services

• Security Angel: Security Architecture, Advisory, Zero Trust, EDR, MDR, Security Monitoring
• Cyber Defense Center: Monitoring, Detection, Response, Escalation
• Network Connector: Network Data, Segmentation, Secure Connectivity
• Platform Builder: Platform Integration, Log Sources, Infrastructure
• Cloud Master: Cloud Security, Governance, Backup and Recovery

• Managed Services: Operations, Reporting, Optimization, and Service Responsibility

   

How does UMB provide support in the event of a cyberattack?

Since 2019, UMB has delivered significant value to more than 300 customers as a reliable incident response partner. To manage complex security incidents, UMB provides customers with support from certified experts who adhere to the highest quality standards and have extensive experience in restoring customer systems to normal operation. Additional engineering resources can be brought in at any time as needed.​