Just as the world has changed to meet the "new normal" of the pandemic, people and companies must also reassess the future of their cybersecurity posture. There is a virtual war, in which cyber attacks are constantly evolving. Therefore, ensuring that all systems are protected today, with accelerated digitalization, requires highly qualified 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 can't always keep up with people's behavior, both inside and outside companies. That's why, if people have no borders, protection can't either. A security solution needs to reach and monitor information, wherever it is.
Event correlation and network and device analysis are commonplace on the market. But this concept needs to be taken to new interfaces, such as mobile devices and the cloud. This allows the company to visualize and manage all data, whether it is inside or outside the IT control environment.
Intelligence
The value of threat intelligence is to understand who is targeting the business and to study the possibilities of attacks before they happen. But most of the threat intelligence consumed in the cybersecurity market comes from manufacturers who are usually focused on the US market. That's why it's important to invest in a solution that has a vision of the domestic market and has its own intelligence, based on attacks that have occurred internally. This gives more context when designing the protection strategy.
A good cybersecurity solution correlates global threat data, compared to geographically positioned data and data specific to the sector 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 the vulnerabilities that actually pose a risk to the business.
Compliance
A security solution that correlates data 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, while respecting each company's privacy policies.
In addition, there is the contribution to the LGPD, since we are talking about people's data. A truly intelligent security solution reduces the risk of exposing the company to possible reputational problems, which, as we know, can lead to fines and penalties.
Timeless
Ideally, the solution that protects company data should be scalable and lively, keeping pace with the company's organic growth and the changes in the hyper-connected business world. This requires cutting-edge technology, which remains relevant precisely because it incorporates the most innovative cybersecurity standards and technologies in the world. The solution is therefore capable of timeless protection, without expiry dates, taking into account the context and reality of each business.
Transparency
The security solution in place needs to enable the company to have clear data on the benefit it is generating. A structure that integrates cybersecurity and risk, allowing reports with information that better inform managers' decisions about which risks have the greatest impact on the business 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 in effective returns for the company.
The cybersecurity market is investing in research and development to keep solutions up to date and exceed people's expectations. This is the road to the future.
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