There’s an old age saying that prevention is better than cure. The biggest hindrance when it comes to cybersecurity is that there are so many trajectories that cybercriminals can possibly exploit, it’s often difficult for cybersecurity experts to conclude where best to focus their efforts. That’s especially true in the middle of an undergoing security catastrophe that requires security teams to spin from one attack to another on a daily basis. Nonetheless, there are 4 domains of cyber security in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that clearly deserves more attention as part of any effort to proactively minimize the total number of incidents that every cybersecurity team needs to manage. These are listed as follows: –
Endpoint Protection
Hacktivists target endpoints so as to attack the people that employ these devices are the weakest link. With the maximum number of end users/workforce now working from home, many of them are employing older consumer-grade systems and wireless networks to access sensitive data. In a perfect world, end users ought to be employing the latest generation of hardware to take advantage of the latest security abilities. Security is now a fundamental cause to upgrade.
Data Protection
End users are error prone. Mistakes are made regardless of how much training is imparted. Too many security teams ponder about data protection as a backup and recovery task that is managed by an IT operations team. Worse Luck, most of such processes relied on to backup and then recover data are greatly flawed. Routinely no one has ever tested whether the data that has been backed up can be recovered or not.
Cloud Security
Cloud platforms themselves are conceivably more secure than on-premises IT environments. However, the way they are equipped by developers with little to no security expertise using infrastructure-as-code tools results in countless misconfigurations. Cybersecurity teams need to proactively scan for glitch in cloud resources and then make certain those issues are remediated. If not, all cybercriminals need to do to a create chaos scan for all open ports.
Software Supply Chain
Most of the recent noteworthy security breaches that are inclusive of a breach of a software supply chain. Cybercriminals have become more proficient at implanting malware in upstream application development projects that result in malware being distributed across a wide range of downstream IT environments that wind up running code infected with malware. Cybersecurity teams need to conjointly engage developers in such a way that results in a set of best DevSecOps practices that baffles with attack vector. The more automated these processes are the more robust & strong application security will become simply because any task that gets in the way of writing code is likely to be ignored by developers. As unfair as that may seem, application developer productivity still outshines security.
There is, obviously, no such thing as faultless security. However, there are some proactive measures that can be taken to help reduce the total number of security incidents. Given the current level of collapse among cybersecurity professionals, that result in a high rate of turnover, it’s in the best interest of all concerned to make sure the fundamentals of security hygiene are observed if or not any other reason than preserving the balance of security teams that are already chronically understaffed.
