Just as the world has changed to meet the 'new normal' of pandemic, people and businesses must also reassess the future of their cyber security posture. There is a cyber war going on, where cyber attacks are constantly evolving. Therefore, ensuring that all systems are protected today, with accelerating digitisation, requires highly skilled processes, technologies and personnel.
Without Borders
Today people exchange data everywhere. Cloud and mobility are pillars that are here to stay, there's no going back. But security cannot always keep up with people's behaviour, inside and outside companies. So if people have no boundaries, neither can protection. A security solution needs to reach and monitor information, wherever it is.
It is commonplace in the market to offer event correlation and network and device analysis. But you need to take this concept to new interfaces, such as mobile and cloud. This allows the enterprise to view and manage all data, whether it is within or outside the IT area's control environment.
Intelligence
The value of threat intelligence is understanding who is targeting the business and studying the possibilities of attacks before they happen. But most threat intelligence consumed in the cybersecurity market comes from vendors typically focused on the US market. So it's important to invest in a solution that has insight into the domestic market and has its own intelligence, based on attacks that have occurred at a domestic level. This gives more context when designing a protection strategy.
A good cybersecurity solution correlates global threat data against geographically positioned and industry-specific data to which the monitored company belongs. So, instead of generating reports with thousands of vulnerabilities, without any priority or context, the ideal is to report only what really matters. In other words, 3% of vulnerabilities that effectively represent risk for the business.
Compliance
A security solution, which does data correlation, should allow the customer to choose, for example, which data would be sent to the cloud, or which data would be stored in the customer's own environment, respecting the privacy policies of each company.
In addition, there is the contribution with LGPD, since we are talking about people's data. A truly intelligent security solution reduces the risk of exposing the company to possible problems associated with reputation, which, as we know, can generate fines and penalties.
Timeless
Ideally, the solution that protects company data should be scalable and live, keeping pace with the organic growth of the company and the transformations in the hyper-connected business world. This requires cutting-edge technology that remains relevant precisely because it incorporates the world's most innovative cybersecurity standards and technologies. Thus, the solution is able to protect in a timeless manner, without expiry dates, considering the context and reality of each business.
Transparency
The security solution in place needs to enable the company to have clear data about the benefit it is generating. A framework that integrates cybersecurity and risk, enabling reporting with information that better informs management decisions about which risks impact the business the most and therefore need to be mitigated.
This makes it easier to measure not only the cost of not protecting, but also to show in a more transparent way how much the investments in an intelligent SOC are generating an effective return for the company.
The cyber security market is investing in research and development to keep solutions current and exceed people's expectations. That is the road to the future.
Talk to an expert to find out what is best for your company's context.