Rapidly evolving nature of technology presents a dual sword. While you can solve complex problems at a faster pace, cyber criminals can use new ways to break into your system and steal precious information and cause irreparable damage. To protect critical data, you need to update your security infrastructure regularly.
Cyber Security is an unfamiliar world to a lot of entrepreneurs. Many struggle to understand the basics of internet security and find it hard to implement the policies across the organization to protect data. There was a time, when companies depended on their in-house IT team for software and hardware upgradation, and expected them to protect any cyber attack. But, things have changed with evolution of technology in 21st century. Myriad of operational tasks and processes are efficiently automated via the cloud, which may or may not bring flaws to the system.
The complex nature of IT infrastructure of companies today brings a completely new set of challenges in implementing cyber security policies. Here’s a list of challenges you might face while you try to make your organization safer from cyber attacks.
Appropriate tools to automate controls: Protection of your online presence isn’t something that can happen in isolation. From checking security condition of every gadget to firewalls and routers, you need the right tools to monitor and control the security position at every stage. With automated tools you can detect; access and prioritize threats.
Integrate tools and measure effectiveness: Once you implement the right tools, you should analyze the effectiveness regularly to find any loop holes in the system. It’s important to integrate all your tools for proper functioning of your security infrastructure. With help of machine learning and data analytics cyber security analysts can interpret meaningful information from massive amount of data, and use it predict future attacks.
Lack of trained staff: You got the tools in place and you start to expect that your organization is completely protected and you are protected from any further attacks. However, reality is no organization can be 100 percent sure of protection from cyber attacks. You need well trained staff to maintain the applications and monitor the security condition continuously to find out any loopholes or ongoing attacks.
Getting employees to comply: One of the toughest challenges in implementing cyber security is making every employee comply with the security rules. Irrespective of designation, every member of the organization should understand and follow the prescribed set of rules to prevent any kind of attack. Any small mistake, like carrying a personal pen drive or spam email can expose the organization to unseen risks and put all efforts to protect critical data at vain.
Cost: Installing the right tools, monitoring the security condition continuously and making the process automatic requires attention of an experienced cyber security specialist. Thought the services are costly, you can always choose to outsource and get the job done at reasonably low price.
At SiriNiti we understand these challenges and have great success stories to share. We have helped companies resist cyber attacks through our Enterprise Cyber Security Services. You can write to us at info@siriniti.net and one of our consultants will be happy to brief you about the services we offer.
