Securing IT assets has become the primary concern for businesses in the current scenario. The digital world is constantly evolving and accelerating by enhancing connectivity, financial inclusion, access to trade, and public services. And businesses require operational excellence, digital proficiency, Innovativeness, Customer-centricity, Adaptability, Flexibility, and more importantly, the businesses need to have policies and measures to protect critical systems and sensitive information.
Cybersecurity is protecting valuable IT assets from probable cyber attacks and anticipating threats before they happen. Cyber resilience is the ability to respond to, and recover from cyber-attacks. Traditional security measures are no longer enough to ensure adequate information security, data security, and network security, it requires integration of cybersecurity throughout the enterprise operations.
Cyber security measures defend against cyber threats such as malware malicious software such as spyware, ransomware, viruses and worms, phishing, password attacks, data breach. A single data breach can cost significant losses and irrecoverable damages to the business. The chances of experiencing data breach were 29.6 percent in 2019 and have tremendously increased since then.
Outdated security systems, blind spots in the data center, and applications can jeopardize compliance and increase risk.
Therefore, companies must adapt technologies and automation, regulations, and compliance to withstand the face of persistent disruption.
Critical infrastructure security, Application Security, Network Security, Cloud security, Internet of Things (IoT) security, and more application of technologies, processes and controls protect both company and personal data such as personally identifiable information, protected health information, and intellectual property.
Cybersecurity measures uphold objectives of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of digital assets to businesses. Several measures such as timely data backup of the most critical types of data, firewalls, data encryption, using strong passwords, using Antivirus Software, securing computers & operating systems with security patches, and implementing digital signatures enable the ability to respond and recover from cyber-attacks.
Cyber security also should create cyber resilience through aligning business objectives and security measures. Enabling security means bringing together all the capabilities of cyber security to automatically sense, detect, avert, and stop threats. It also means to streamline security, make it easy to use, provide future protection, and help the businesses as they grow into the future.