FEATURE : CYBERSECURITY
I THINK WE ARE IN A VERY GOOD TIME TO RETHINK THE STRATEGY . WE SEE CLEAR RISKS THAT WE HAVE TO MITIGATE .
they have changed location . The houses of each of the collaborators , their computers , and their mobile devices , became an extension or a branch of the organization over night .
‘ But nothing had happened ,’ a general manager of an organization once told me emphatically after being affected with ransomware that impeded him from using his computers and his publishing information contained in the affected servers . ‘ Why me ?,’ he asked .
Because we prioritized the operation , we did not see the risks and no one alerted us . We never saw that switching from face-to-face meetings to virtual meetings required a protocol to be able to prevent an unknown person from joining the session so that no one could record the conversations , and no one impersonated someone else in the session .
Let me explain a bit .
Overnight we enabled the videoconferencing tools which were already available in the organization with the free versions that allowed 45 minutes of the session . There was no training , there was no induction . Like in other areas , we stepped up to use it the best we could and the risks were not seen .
Visibility
Now , not everything is as bad . I think we are in a very good time to rethink the strategy . We see clear risks that we have to mitigate : the information that is now in different points , access to critical or confidential resources , the personal data of collaborators , clients and allies , as well as , in my point of view , the greatest current danger : The visibility .
The visibility allows us to identify what is happening in our network , in our infrastructure , in computers or mobile devices that have information about the organization . I do not mean to control too much , to know exactly what is being done , but instead , to have enough visibility and control to be able to react in advance and not reactively .
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