Cybersecurity in the Post Pandemic Business Ecosystem

Cybersecurity in Post Pandemic Ecosystem

       When the pandemic first struck, every organization raced towards setting up a remote workplace model to ensure business continuity. This abrupt shift to a previously untested model quickly led to several security concerns. Digital tools and platforms proliferated, and as they did, the business ecosystem uncovered a tremendously bigger attack surface to cybersecurity incidents and vulnerabilities.

       With a surge in cybersecurity incidents, organizations had to quickly take steps towards enabling robust and comprehensive cyber resilience across their business ecosystem. To future-proof your business, it is essential to establish the right security mindset and have the right controls to boost cybersecurity maturity.

       Here are 8 best practices to embrace and build cyber resilience, strengthen the security posture of your organization, and ensure the highest level of enterprise security: 

1. Enable Security by Design: Shift security to the left and take a holistic approach to implement security and compliance management to proactively protect business assets and data. 

2. Multi-layered Cybersecurity Approach: In today’s threat landscape, organizations must take a multi-layered cybersecurity approach to react and respond rather than taking remediation steps.

3. Embrace Security-First Mindset: To navigate security became the first thought for all organizations. To do this, one must understand the current scenario and the requirements in terms of security.

4. Strengthen Cybersecurity Posture: To operate efficiently, organizations must drive continuous efforts in strengthening their cybersecurity despite higher adoption rates.

5. Automate Security Implementations:  Manual approach for security won’t work post-pandemic, so automating security across the enterprise is a far better way of preventing the attacks.  

6. Implement Zero-Trust Policy: Instead of making everything accessible to everyone and then having restrictions, it’s better to implement a zero-trust policy.

7. Limit Data Access: As many users use the corporate network from different locations, limiting data access is always preferable considering the security concern.

8. Increase Security Awareness: The security of an organization depends on the employees, so it is important to train them on security and associated risks to handle issues.

9. Build Security Operations Center: It’s a great deal to build a centralized security operation center as a function like this will help in preventing, detecting, and correcting cyberattacks and managing the security.

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Read this Xoriant Cybersecurity Series blog: 

Cybersecurity in a Post Pandemic Business Ecosystem - Part 1

Cybersecurity in a Post Pandemic Business Ecosystem - Part 2

Cybersecurity in a Post Pandemic Business Ecosystem - Part 3