Workplaces are now completely invaded by technology. With the growing popularity of telecommuting, companies have become dependent on computer systems. Cybersecurity has become essential to carry out their operations and stay in touch safely.
While telecommuting has made many opportunities possible, it has also facilitated the intrusion of many new threats, such as viruses, ransomware attacks and phishing. If humans know how to adapt, hackers know how to adapt! Malware is becoming more and more ingenious and difficult to detect.
How can you get away with it? Workers and managers must also adapt to the new intelligence of these attacks! Cybersecurity comes into play, a field that must be professionalized in every company to survive in this technological and globalized era.
How does it work?
Cybersecurity is a set of protocols, techniques, regulations and means to protect users and companies from potential cyberattacks. Therefore, the field of cybersecurity specializes in critical IT infrastructure, such as smartphones, computers, printers, networks, etc. These tools are specifically affected, because these days, almost all stored information is interconnected.
In order to work, cybersecurity must multiply its resources and add up its means, in order to create a real effective shield against digital threats and attacks on all possible levels.
Why is cybersecurity important in your business?
It is important to remember that cybersecurity is PRIMORITY. There are countless reasons to establish cybersecurity policies for one’s company or personal life, including these :
- Prevent and minimize the risk of cyber attacks: phishing, spam, ransomware, data leakage, identity theft, credit card theft, loss of sensitive data, etc. ;
- Increase its vigilance and reactivity to potential viruses or fraudulent links;
- Avoid the consequences related to poor cybersecurity: damage to your image, extraction of sensitive and privileged data, financial losses, extortion, etc.
What are the fundamental principles of cybersecurity?
Cybersecurity, in this particularly connected and technological age, takes on many faces. However, it maintains a few basic principles that form its core:
- Ensuring the integrity of your personal data and quick access to it when you need it ;
- Protecting your records and information so that they are only accessed by you and the people you choose to give access to;
- Blocking and preventing any type of unauthorized infiltration of your operating systems;
- Ensuring the security of your data to prevent any modification, misappropriation or destruction of your information;
- Avoiding extortion or disruption of your daily operations;
- Implementing all standards, processes and measures that can help you keep your information as you left it;
- Detecting and disclosing known and discovered vulnerabilities to prevent malware from replicating and spreading across multiple companies/users;
Cybersecurity starts with the corporate culture, but it is certain that the main users, the employees, are the main protagonists. Cybersecurity includes all the laws, methods, policies and good practices to be implemented at home as well as in your company to secure your information.
Ask DMIB for help with your cybersecurity problems: our team of IT solutions experts will be able to cover your needs in order to reduce the risk of attacks as much as possible. A small step for the health of your digital systems, a big step for the growth of your company. Contact our specialists !