The name and image of a company can define the number of customers and users, the turnover, and finally the success or failure of an activity. Damage to the image of the company could lead to an economic and commercial defeat beyond all expectations, even worse if the services provided or the data of its customers are directly attacked.
In the course of this article, we will analyze the types of cybersecurity to be adopted within your company and will provide some tips to improve corporate IT security.
Corporate cybersecurity is a constantly evolving sector that, through the use of various professional figures, aims to monitor cyber risk and prevent the threats that today are at the forefront of the causes of economic damage to businesses.
What is corporate cybersecurity?
Corporate IT security consists of the set of analyzes, software, techniques, and preventions implemented to prevent a malicious actor from being able to pierce the digital assets of his company, resulting in “data breaches” that could seriously damage the reputation of the company itself and be punishable with a sanction issued by the Guarantor for failing to comply with the requirements of the GDPR. So corporate cybersecurity is the key to keeping your money, your customers, and your services.
What are the types of corporate cyber security?
Corporate cyber security deals with protecting against all possible hacker attacks and therefore has different fields of action:
- Corporate network security: protects the corporate intranet from unauthorized access through the use of firewalls, behavioral policies, and antivirus software;
- Cloud security: the growing need for scalability and speed forces you to transfer your data to the cloud, which must be protected through the use of encryption, fragmentation of memory units, different privileges for system users, and monitoring of access to documents;
- IoT security: the use of smart devices in offices and companies has become one of the main attack vectors and security is guaranteed by constantly updating the device software, changing the default credentials to access the control panel, and checking that the manufacturer constantly releases security patches for the product used;
- Endpoint security and digital assets: it deals with performing penetration tests, applying defenses such as IDS and WAF, and carrying out code analyses regarding services offered online and web endpoints;
- Security of confidential information and data: deals with the defense of data and its integrity, often through the adoption of policies, creation of backups, use of hashing and encryption techniques ;
- Infrastructure security (physical): deals with ensuring the security of the rooms containing the servers and computers connected to the corporate intranet and is often tested through red teaming operations that aim to highlight the weaknesses present in the structure and in its management.
What are the useful tips for the digital protection of companies?
As can be deduced from the list presented above, corporate IT security is a complex and extensive set of many aspects that must be properly taken care of to prevent a flaw in only one of these areas from becoming a weak point of the company.
Therefore, it is important to implement the following points:
- Training of staff in cyber security: the human factor is the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain and it is, therefore, important to educate employees to use the devices with which they work every day in a safe and intelligent way;
- Make backups: this will prevent sensitive data from being lost in the event of ransomware or hardware damage;
- Monitor the devices used to work: it will allow you to discover any leaks, monitor any unwanted traffic, and obtain information on the attacker;
- Create password policies: the policies will remind employees to update their password with a new secure key (it is important to list the prerequisites for creating a strong password);
- Identify vulnerable areas and carry out penetration tests and red teaming to examine how the defenses deployed respond to a simulated attack;
- Always keep the software and systems used up to date, possibly equipped with an antivirus with daily updated signatures.
Conclusion
In a digital world constantly connected and with attacks in continuous development, investing in the cybersecurity of your company means putting a stop to catastrophic scenarios of cyber attacks that could damage the reputation, customers, and profit of the company. The goal of extreme protection is achievable only through a complete analysis of the possible areas without defenses to prevent technical attacks or attacks related to social engineering activities
