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The figure of CISO has gained more prominence within corporations, because in addition to being a strategic role, companies began to pay more attention to digital threats and understood that leaving security aside can bring enormous damage to the business.
Therefore, these prominent and more skilled professionals need to ensure that all necessary measures are being taken to protect companies and their information.
With the LGPD (General Data Protection Act), this area became even more evident by adding a greater internal security demand to protect user, customer and transaction data, making the entire scope of corporate information security even more complex.
In addition, news of companies that have had their information leaked or been victims of attacks and intrusions is frequent. However, risks do not exist only in the world outside the company.
It is common to try to shield the outside of the company as a whole, through tools and processes, without taking into account that the behavior of the employees themselves is one of the determining factors in the digital security strategy along with the entire internal scenario.
Therefore, we have prepared this guide for CISO professionals to focus also on the internal security of the company. These are effective tips that should be shared with all employees. Check out!
The importance of CISO for companys
To get started, let’s talk about the importance of this professional. The role of the head of security within large corporations establishes a level of maturity in this sense, since they recognize the importance of information security for the business.
It is also necessary to consider that this is a constantly evolving territory, as the risks continue to change over time, as well as legislation.
Keeping up to date, planning next steps and anticipating any problems, as well as ensuring that all internal systems, processes and services are working, are part of the scope of the profile of the specialist in the area. These demands can be carried out with only one professional or with a complete department, depending on the complexity of the company.
Thus, the figure of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is an extremely strategic position for corporations, defining the paths that will be traced internally along with the choice of solutions, partners and analysis. The responsibility to bring innovation, especially in terms of technology and solutions, also falls on this essential professional in modern times.
How CISO can mitigate internal threats from companies
It is impossible to talk about cyber security without a constant search for new technologies and solutions to implement a corporate culture of protection. Whether it’s to improve productivity or to stay in compliance with audits, defenses against potential attacks are important and should not be left to basic measures such as using antivirus or firewall.
And this process includes leaving no loopholes created by systems or humans and maintaining a culture of safe development. Care needs to exist at all levels and from the inside out of the company.
Having and maintaining up-to-date usage and development policies that value quality is important, but with legislation getting stricter, threats faster, and everything more connected, this care needs to exist in all internal processes.
So we’ve separated some tips to strengthen your company’s internal security. It is always worth remembering the best practices and prioritizing the adoption of these by all employees, is not it?
Watch out for the importance of secure passwords
Passwords are the first feature on the front line of access to your company’s information. A simple way to increase security is to establish automatic processes that determine the password change after a certain period, such as every 3 months, for example.
Increasing requirements such as capitalization, special characters, and numbers when setting which passwords are allowed and making it difficult for those who want to break into your IT environment to work is essential.
But it’s not enough just to have a secure password, you need to perform the exchange frequently, also putting two-factor authentication parameters for critical access. The culture here also plays an important role, since it is necessary to monitor if there is no exchange of access between employees within the company itself, for example.
VPN
Virtual private networks are great tools for establishing secure networks, with data encapsulated in a first stage and encrypted in a second. Having a secure channel, such as a barrier between the corporate network and users, is a practical solution, since it unites secure access, encryption and mobility.
By using the home or other non-secure network to access corporate data, information, and files, criminals can track this connection when there is no extra protection to access internal systems. Thus, VPN also allows you to make the private network available anywhere in the world, making a secure channel between corporate information and the internet.
License upgrade
We’ve already seen that using stronger passwords and an extra layer when accessing internal systems is essential to creating and supporting security protocols. Another important issue for internal security is updating software and system licenses.
Having any unlicensed or pirated software is already a big risk by itself. The threats are great, both because they are not verified and official solutions that leave the entire environment vulnerable, and because they infringe copyrights that can generate huge processes. Besides being a crime, of course.
Thus, licensing becomes an investment when it enables access to secure solutions, with warranties and updates provided by manufacturers.
Keeping them up to date is strengthening security measures at no cost, and can even be automated in processes at off-hours. Thus, the responsibility to keep everything up to date for everyone ceases to be the end user – who often does not understand the importance of this process, and becomes something routine and involuntary.
Patch update
Unexpected or incorrect results are common in all types of software, and the correction of these errors is found in the patches released by the manufacturer. Security updates are also released, as in the case of antivirus that when outdated does not have in its “threat catalog” the most current viruses, for example.
Patches can range from minor fixes to “new bricks for extending the wall of protection” for your company and need to be evaluated to determine relevance so as not to generate conflicts between different integrated systems.
The corporate security system is not simple. There are many points to pay attention to, and the complexity only grows when the technological park expands and new solutions and threats arrive in the market.
In this way, having an expert partner in the area, such as bugScout, will help your company be more efficient while reducing risks.
To learn more about how bugScout can help you from the DevOps cycle to audit processes, please contact us to schedule a meeting.
