James Kloppers, pre-sales engineer, CASA.
A quick internet search on the current cyber threat landscape will yield any number of gloomy statistics. Add to that the fact that artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to give already well-resourced cyber criminals even more devastating tools to hack into corporate and government systems.
For example, with a cyber attack occurring every 39 seconds, more than 71 million people or 800 000 organisations become victims of cyber crime each year. Moreover, the incidence of cyber crime has risen by 600% since the COVID-19 pandemic.
This last statistic leads to the pivotal point that information and technology have become vital to, and inseparable from, business. Therefore, an information security management system (ISMS) helps organisations to protect information assets and mitigate cyber risk by not only streamlining existing business processes, but also by helping to improve business efficiency, identify redundancies and reduce costs.
An ISMS is based on a framework made up of people/teams, policies, processes, products and technologies, as well as partners and third-parties (vendors). It is all about helping organisations to manage risk…
