Cybersecurity
In today’s era, digital systems are the backbone of all business entities and enterprises. Digital systems include desktop, laptop,, server, mobile phone, internet, router, LAN WAN, IOT, website and ecommerce etc. One or more of such digital systems are used to optimize business processes and growth.
While such digital systems are boons to the business and enterprises, they bring in the risk of their misuse. The risk is even higher when the systems are connected to the internet, because the attacker and misuse them or theft the information remotely through the internet.
The techniques of protecting internet-connected systems such as computers, servers, mobile devices, electronic systems, networks, and data from malicious attacks is known as Cyber Security.
The term “cyber security” into two parts one is cyber, and the other is security. Cyber refers to the technology that includes systems, networks, programs, and data. And security is concerned with the protection of systems, networks, applications, and information. In some cases, it is also called electronic information security or information technology security.
Significance of Cyber Security
Cyber-attack is now an international concern that hacks the system, and other security attacks could endanger the global economy. Cyber-attack may lead to huge financial losses, reputation losses and business loss etc. Protection against cyber-attack needs a strategic plan and processes.
It is essential to have an excellent cyber security strategy to protect sensitive information from high-profile security breaches. Cyber security measures and processes must be implemented to protect their sensitive business and personal information of the companies, its partners and its employees etc. for various industries:
- Manufacturing
- Education
- Healthcare
- Food and Beverage
- Pharmaceutical
- Life Sciences
- Chemicals
- Utilities (Power, Gas)
- Excise and Taxation
- Transport
- Electricity
- PWD (Public Works Department)
- eCommerce
- Forest Department
- Finance
- …and others.
Cyber Security Goals
Cyber Security’s main objective is to ensure data protection. The security community provides a triangle of three related principles to protect the data from cyber-attacks. This principle is called the CIA triad. The CIA model is designed to guide policies for an organization’s information security infrastructure. When any security breaches are found, one or more of these principles has been violated.
We can break the CIA model into three parts: Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. It is actually a security model that helps people to think about various parts of IT security. Let us discuss each part in detail.
Confidentiality
Confidentiality is equivalent to privacy that avoids unauthorized access of information. It involves ensuring the data is accessible by those who are allowed to use it and blocking access to others. It prevents essential information from reaching the wrong people. Data encryption is an excellent example of ensuring confidentiality.
Integrity
This principle ensures that the data is authentic, accurate, and safeguarded from unauthorized modification by threat actors or accidental user modification. If any modifications occur, certain measures should be taken to protect the sensitive data from corruption or loss and speedily recover from such an event. In addition, it indicates to make the source of information genuine.
Availability
This principle makes the information to be available and useful for its authorized people always. It ensures that these accesses are not hindered by system malfunction or cyber-attacks.
Types of Cyber Threats
- Malware
- Phishing
- Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack
- Distributed denial of services (DDOS)
- Brute Force
- SQL Injection (SQLI)
- Domain Name System (DNS) attack
Types of Cyber Security
Every organization’s assets are the combinations of a variety of different systems. These systems have a strong cyber security posture that requires coordinated efforts across all of its systems. Therefore, we can categorize cyber security in the following sub-domains:
Network Security:
It involves implementing the hardware and software to secure a computer network from unauthorized access, intruders, attacks, disruption, and misuse. This security helps an organization to protect its assets against external and internal threats.
Application Security:
It involves protecting the software and devices from unwanted threats. This protection can be done by constantly updating the apps to ensure they are secure from attacks. Successful security begins in the design stage, writing source code, validation, threat modeling, etc., before a program or device is deployed.
Information or Data Security:
It involves implementing a strong data storage mechanism to maintain the integrity and privacy of data, both in storage and in transit.
Identity management
It deals with the procedure for determining the level of access that each individual has within an organization.
Operational Security:
It involves processing and making decisions on handling and securing data assets.
Mobile Security:
It involves securing the organizational and personal data stored on mobile devices such as cell phones, computers, tablets, and other similar devices against various malicious threats. These threats are unauthorized access, device loss or theft, malware, etc.
Cloud Security:
It involves in protecting the information stored in the digital environment or cloud architectures for the organization. It uses various cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, Google, etc., to ensure security against multiple threats.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning:
It deals with the processes, monitoring, alerts, and plans to how an organization responds when any malicious activity is causing the loss of operations or data. Its policies dictate resuming the lost operations after any disaster happens to the same operating capacity as before the event.
User Education:
It deals with the processes, monitoring, alerts, and plans to how an organization responds when any malicious activity is causing the loss of operations or data. Its policies dictate resuming the lost operations after any disaster happens to the same operating capacity as before the event.
Bizentia Cyber Security Services
Our Cyber Security Services covers the entire spectrum of Cyber Security listed above starting from the preparation to the audit and controls.
Preparation
Asset identification, Establish Security Requirements, Setup Cyber Security Strategies
Assess Current Status
Threat modelling, As-is-assessment, Risk Assessment,
Planning
Establish Security Policy and procedures, Cyber Security Training
Implementation
Infrastructure hardening, End Point Security, SDLC, Security Best practices, security controls implementation, protective monitoring, incident management, security operations and security in practice etc.
Audit and Controls
Periodic security assessment, white-box testing, penetration testing, security code review and compliance audit etc.
Bizentia is pioneer in Cyber Security Awareness, Training, defensive strategy, incident management, security operations and retrospective solutions.
