18 May Learn how to prevent Cyberattacks and keep your company safe.

How to avoid cyberattacks and keep security of your company.

MPL Corporate Software has been implementing and maintaining information systems for medium and large companies since 1985. Back in the 1980s, little was heard about problems related to security After almost 40 years, the problem is now frequent, sophisticated and causing more and more damage to companies and users of systems and applications.

The conclusions presented in the Cyber Security 2016-UK survey on data and systems breaches, released last week, reveal some interesting statistics about the problem of security in the UK, which we can undoubtedly believe may be similar to our reality here in Brazil. Predominantly, the report shows that 65% of large companies detected a breach of security or attack in the last year, with 25% of them experiencing at least one breach per month. The most interesting piece of information is that only half (51%) of all companies have tried to identify the cyber risks faced by their organization, which means that the other half haven't even tried to identify the cyber risks faced by their organization. knowledge of any potential threats.

And these threats are endless. New working practices have taken place in recent years, supported and induced by changes in information technology. Applications and data networks can now be shared anywhere, on a wide range of devices, in an intricate web of ecosystems involving partners, clients and third parties, meaning more data than ever being constantly shared and therefore needing to be kept safe. security.

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.

Hospitals therefore have to protect confidential patient data; retail stores have to protect credit card information. clients and educational institutions have the task of keeping a vast array of critical student data under lock and key, with really no margin for error. In this context, it is no longer a question of whether or not there will be a breach in the security in companies. But 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, In addition, companies need to maintain strict processes for periodically updating their users' access profiles to their systems, ensuring that passwords are only used by duly authorized persons. More than 90% of the problems of security which we were called upon to help clarify, occurred internally by employees who identified the absence of processes for security capable of inhibiting crime.

Companies need to address the security with the same importance as other relevant issues in your day-to-day life, ensuring that information from clients, suppliers and others are preserved and safe from attack, just as much as your internal business processes are safe from malicious employees who could do you harm.

Oscar Pinto da Luz Neto

CEO