Security & Compliance

Cybersecurity is a vital component of company infrastructure. Success depends on a company’s ability to protect its proprietary information and customer data from those who would abuse it. Regardless of size, scope, or industry, every company that wants to survive must answer two fundamental questions while assessing itself. It will make your ogranization less vulnerable to external attacks and hackers. You will get protection from sophisticated criminal groups and ‘script kiddies’ that have the capacity to execute APTs, otherwise known as advanced persistent threats.

The concepts of business continuity and disaster recovery are the base strategies of good cybersecurity. Business continuity is essential to the survival of a business. Recovering from threats quickly means you can retain your audience during problematic situations. Problems will less likely become customer-facing issues if there is a plan in place. Disaster recovery means maintaining the integrity of your data and your infrastructure after a catastrophic event. These threats are ultimately classified by the level of cybersecurity currently implemented in your digital infrastructure.

The Importance of Cybersecurity

Why should security be at the forefront every company’s agenda? Why should senior management, including non-tech C-suite decision-makers, concern themselves with cybersecurity?

There is one undeniable reason: The digital world in which we do business is vulnerable and open to attack.

Digitization brings with it endless opportunities for innovation. It still has a long way to go before becoming a fully secure ecosystem that is programmed to regulate and control itself. Decision-makers should ensure that all systems in their company adhere to the latest high-security standards. Employees must also be trained in basic cyber-security protocols too. This is especially true of non-tech employees. For instance, everyone needs to know how to identify a phishing email and how to quarantine it, while notifying the proper authority, both internal and external.

The odds are against you without the right security strategy. Even with the strongest controls in place, count on those controls to be tested. Attackers know how to find weak spots and exploit them, opening holes up that bring down stronger systems. The solution is having good ‘cyber hygiene’, or practicing the fundamental security tasks that will keep the majority of threats out.