Why is a cyber security mindset essential?

Covid is a great example of how various communities/individuals and world governments have come together to fight, to overcome and bring back things to normal. Equally Cyber security is the art of protecting electronic systems, networks, and data from malicious attacks. And similarly, we need to do it together and be aware. It is not just an individual task, but of every individual and we are equally responsible. Similarly, if you wear a mask, but the other person beside you does not, you are still at a risk.

Cyber security is crucial because government entities, corporate, financial, and heath care organizations pretty much everyone accumulates, process, and collect unprecedented volumes of data on computers and new devices. A substantial segment of that data can be sensitive data, whether that be intellectual property, financial data, personal information, or other types of data for which unauthorized access or exposure could have adverse outcomes. Businesses transmit sensitive data across networks and to other devices in the course of doing businesses, and cyber security describes the discipline dedicated to protecting that information and the systems used to process or store it.?

As part of the RAPID7 Industry Cyber-Exposure Report (ICER), series, which digs into cyber-exposure among organizations in Australia’s ASX 200 focuses on five key areas we believe CISOs at mega-corporations actually have a shot at accomplishing and will have a practical and fairly immediate effect on a given company's internet security posture. You can read the report?(HERE)

And then we have SOCIAL Engineering, if you have read the book by Sun Tzu, The Art of War it states that “All warfare is based on deception.”?Similarly social engineering is the method of stealing credentials/information. And all it takes is an email, phone call or text message disguised as coming from a colleague, friend, or known company and the cybercriminal has won. Social engineering is tough to protect against because human beings are erratic. There is no way of realizing who will fall for a social engineering attack.?

?So what is the right way to prevent it?

I don’t have an answer, and no single answer is correct. But here's what you can do. Spread the awareness, have the right technical resources and tools. Run stimulated attacks internally to see if your Incident response team and playbook are defined. Provide cyber training and awareness sessions. This should be a fair start. Additionally, review your technology stack, look at the Gartner quadrants for guidance. Reach out to a team of experts like Rapid7 ?? to provide you a solution. And if you think having the right person/solution is expensive, try not having the right one.??

Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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