Intelligent CIO LATAM Issue 04 | Page 44

CIO OPINION
We start from the principle – apparently paradoxical – that to trust we must distrust .
Jaime Galviz , General Manager of Microsoft Colombia

Zero Trust to protect information

Jaime Galviz , General Manager of Microsoft Colombia , explains the benefits of the Zero Trust approach . “ While cyberattacks are dynamic and growing in sophistication , the best defense is to be suspicious ,” he says .

Protecting health has kept the world in suspense for a year . We have designed the strictest protocols , permanent verification systems and risk mitigation plans . However , as we move into remote operations to protect the health and that of our communities , we are creating vulnerabilities for our organizations .

Accelerated virtuality and an unprecedented amount of Digital Transformation have increased cyberattacks , threatening the operational continuity and stability of organizations . Globally , it is estimated that these attacks cost companies about US $ 1 trillion a year and that it takes them , on average , seven months to detect them . Too late for the digital age , where data is the greatest asset . In Colombia , figures from the most recent CCIT report show that reports of cyberattacks between March and December 2020 increased 98 %.
And it is in this time of the ‘ virtual everything ’ that organizations are much more exposed . Remote work , from any device and any network , with access to insecure applications in unprotected environments have become the achilles heels of cybersecurity in the remote world . As it has become clear , social distancing measures are not close to ending so we will have to change our behavior .
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