FEATURE : CYBERSECURITY
How an organization should face its greatest cybersecurity issues
Andrés Velásquez is the founder of MaTTica , a pioneer in the deployment of digital research laboratories in Latin America . He explains how his vision of security ranges from experience to awareness .
The biggest risk in terms of cybersecurity is that senior management does not know how to understand the risks of an organization .
As we increasingly depend on technology and the digital economy is being pushed by the pandemic , some leaders of organizations – small , large or international – still cannot understand what represents a cybersecurity risk .
In many cases , organizations are more concerned with innovating or approaching Digital Transformation , something that was accelerated with the arrival of the pandemic . They were privileged to continue operating remotely and provide services to customers digitally without considering that the risks were still there , and in some cases , they migrated to other places exposing the organization , its collaborators , their information and customers . to allow access to all collaborators through a VPN or to allow them to use their personal computers to continue working . Operations needed to be prioritized .
How do we get to this point ?
The risks are , by facing these changes , that a collaborator may have access to confidential information that he did not have access to before , that he is using a personal computer he shares with his family and , due to ignorance , now has a malicious code that exfiltrates information from the organization .
This risk increases because the collaborator connects to their wireless network that does not have a password and then several neighbours could take advantage of it and use it and then one of those neighbours could get affected with ransomware that encrypted the computers connected in that network .
But at the beginning of this pandemic , it was not the time for those responsible for cybersecurity to refuse
Although , it seems like a horror movie , it is possible it will happen . The traditional risks are still there but
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