18 May Learn how to prevent Cyberattacks and keep your company safe.
How to prevent cyberattacks and keep your company safe.
MPL Corporate Software has been implementing and maintaining information systems for medium and large companies since 1985. If in the 1980s, little was heard about problems related to information security, we have seen that after almost 40 years, the problem is now frequent. , sophisticated and causes more and more damage to companies and users of systems and applications.
The findings presented in the Cyber Security 2016-UK survey on data and systems breaches, released last week, reveal some interesting statistics about the security problem in the UK, which we can without a doubt believe could be similar to the our reality here in Brazil. Predominantly, the report shows that 65% of large enterprises have detected a cybersecurity breach or attack in the last year, with 25% of these experiencing at least one breach per month. The most interesting information is that only half (51%) of all companies have tried to identify the cyber risks facing their organization, which means that the other half are not even aware of any potential threats.
And those threats are endless. New work practices have occurred in recent years, supported and induced by changes in information technology. Applications and data networks can now be shared anywhere, across a wide range of devices, in an intricate web of ecosystems involving partners, customers and third parties, meaning more data than ever before is constantly being shared and therefore needs to be kept secure. .
As a result, breaches are occurring regularly. Hackers are often able to penetrate supposedly secure network perimeters and find their way into the most sensitive parts of an organization's infrastructure.
Therefore, hospitals must protect sensitive patient data; retail stores, customer credit card information, and educational institutions are tasked with keeping a vast array of critical student data under lock and key, with really no room for error. In this context, it is no longer questioned whether or not a security breach will occur in companies. But yes, when.
Rather than focusing primarily on keeping hackers out, organizations need, once the firewall has been compromised, to turn their attention to containing the breach and limiting attacker access.It is about restricting invading movement to a defined segment of the environment.
In Brazil, we have noticed that in addition to technological investments to optimize security, companies need to maintain strict processes for the periodic updating of the access profiles to their systems by their users, ensuring that passwords are used only by duly authorized people. More than 90% of the security problems that we were asked to help clarify, occurred internally by employees who identified the lack of security processes capable of preventing crimes.
Companies need to treat the security agenda with the same importance as other relevant issues of their day to day, thus ensuring that customer, supplier and other information is preserved and safe from attacks, as much as their internal business processes are safe. of malicious collaborators that could cause them harm.
Oscar Pinto da Luz Neto
CEO
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