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Cybersecurity - Digital Threats & Solution

Cybersecurity-

We live in the digital world, which is connected or tightly coupled with emerging technologies using intelligent devices known as IoT. Using the same platform, network, and security framework and sharing a tremendous amount of data across the web and if any of the connected devices are vulnerable will open the door for hackers to do the damage. To catch up and adopt new emerging technologies and provide the best user experience to their customers where most companies move forward and meet demands. Besides cloud platforms, they need to enhance the security infrastructure to host all new products as planned and projected and redeploy & migrate the old legacy platform.

What is Cybersecurity?

Cybersecurity evolved in 1987 and the birth year of commercial antivirus; in 1990, the world went online, and cybercrime and computer hacking activities increased. Cybersecurity refers to all parts of security. The body of technologies, processes, and practices is designed to protect networks, devices, applications, IT, data, identity, and IT access from attack, hacked, or damage. In the current digital world, security plays a significant role. Most companies are putting lots of effort into scaling their infrastructure from Security standpoints to secure all their application & user data getting accessed around the clock globally. We know and are aware of how vital infrastructure for any businesses and large enterprises is to provide new solutions and services to their clients. If it is not secure, it is vulnerable. The companies adopting digital technologies for all their product development are highly focusing on upgrading their IT security simultaneously to secure once they are ready to launch the product. The nature of IT security covers the entire organization. It works very closely with each IT department to ensure they are 100% full proof in nature and covers Network, cloud, application, IAM, and data security. The product or IT applications teams work closely with security teams before releasing the codes to the production environment. Any vulnerabilities from the software or industry regulations get fixed and then released. Most product teams use the DevOps principles for their development and remove their codes to CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and deployment are controlled and monitored by aqua security or micro scanner to scan docker container images for vulnerabilities. Still, many security tools are used at the enterprise level based on needs and business requirements. Everyone follows the best practices and organization guidelines besides industry laws and regulations to protect the enterprise assets and reputation.

Cybersecurity Potential Risks - The significant potential risks are the probability of exposure or losing the extent of customer data if any cyber breach happens. An organization is more vulnerable because of the growing digital presence and no IoT devices and social media GenZ and Millennials. Most organizations face the top 5 cyber threats: ransomware, phishing attacks, data leakage from application codes, system hacking, and inside threats. To reduce all future and current, the organization focused on hiring skilled security resources, providing security training to existing resources, and making them aware of the risks and potential harm from cyber-attacks.

Competitive Advantage - Robust Cybersecurity solutions lay a strong foundation, protect organization assets, and provide more significant customer satisfaction using the products and services. Every organization is part of digital transformation, building new products and rewriting the old applications accessible through iOS, Android, & Windows platforms. The security solutions provide digital protection to businesses that will ensure all employees & customers are not at risk from potential threats such as malware, phishing emails, ransomware attacks. Below are some of the security solutions we work with Security teams and protect business and their assets –

Solutions - IAM solution is part of the Enterprise sign using credentials and MFA. Once users are in the network, they can sign in applications using SSO, and if teams want to access applications, then each time, they must prove their identity using credentials and MFA. Application teams should work with businesses on discussing product features and how we can enhance them before rolling them out to consumers. The development team should ensure the code application codes are appropriately scanned and have zero vulnerabilities before moving to the next CI/CD pipeline stage. From a data perspective, the PII or customer data are encrypted during the development or masked so that when it flows over the network, it cannot be accessed if breached. It is 256-bit or 128-bit encryption to encrypt all data to protect customer information and access a few departments.

Cloud Security - Organizations are adopting cloud technologies to host all their applications so that if the number of users increases or demands increase, it scales up automatically. When needs decrease, it releases the resources that save business costs. Cloud security is a combination of IT policies, technologies, applications, and controls to protect virtualized IP, data, applications, services, and the associated cloud computing infrastructure. Work with the Infrastructure team, ensuring all the cloud configurations based on application requirements are in place and there are no open or loose ends. For cloud configurations, configure at the lower environment, test it thoroughly, and replicate the same for the production environment.

Network Security - The network plays significant roles in business and customers at the same time when we all are living in the digital world. Network security plays an essential role as activities and processes designed to protect the network's useability and integrity and the data. Enterprise users using mobile platforms besides PC to access authorized applications and watch the traffic will increase and need to monitor all incoming traffic with the help of network-based threat detection mechanism tools from security products companies. A growing number of devices bring vulnerabilities across the network layer, and infrastructure teams make sure it does not affect the ecosystem and allow the doors for hackers. Do work with the outside vendors to perform network penetration testing to perform the network penetration and share the test results; it is a step forward to make the security layer fully proof. Bring the dashboard in place for all applications in a cloud environment and continuously monitor any suspicious activities to raise a red flag, block the intrusion, and the Security team.

Network Segmentation - Adopting network segmentation while designing the security solution is a proactive measure to strengthen network security. It divides the computer into small parts, which means network segregation, network partitioning, and network isolation, and with this approach, it improved network security. It also prevents access between network segments, gives better access controls, and enhances monitoring.

Micro-Segmentation -Micro-segmentation is a network security technique that enables security architects to logically divide the data center into distinct security segments down to the individual workload level and then define security controls and deliver services for each unique component. The main advantage of having micro-segmentation is advanced persistent threat (APT) defense, effortless compliance, easy environment separation, and securing all application access. Helps in reducing attack surface, ensuring critical applications, implementing a zero-trust approach.