By Vishal Salvi
To protect against cyberattacks, companies must continuously monitor threats, vulnerabilities, incidents, and risks looking for patterns to ensure maximum visibility and reduce false positives. In the last year, the cyber landscape has presented new opportunities to threat actors. Malware campaigns employing Covid-19 related routes or phishing emails targeting information-hungry citizens became prevalent. According to government estimates, there was a 300% spike in cyber-attacks in 2020. Another report placed India just behind the US in ransomware attacks as many organisations could not restructure their security systems in time to adapt to work-from-home. To manage the new environment, IT teams had to revamp their operating protocol but it led to challenges such as employees resisting the adoption of tools like virtual private networks and new security protocols. Since a hybrid work model is a reality we will be living with for a long time, here are five ways CISOs can ensure that everyone in the organisation is on the same page when it comes to best security practices.
Strengthen risk and robust risk management process: Cyber-attacks disrupt businesses….
