Latin America. Although cybersecurity is very important today, before the pandemic 75% of companies did not have security plans to mitigate potential attacks. During the pandemic there were a total of 133,155 cases of cyberattack, becoming a real danger.
"The most common attacks during the pandemic were those whose purpose was to steal information for criminal purposes such as pishing, cyberattacks against medical centers, false job offers and false pages to collect aid for those affected by COVID-19," said Óscar Quero Hijano, Director of the Master's Degree in Cybersecurity at OBS Business School.
According to Adecco Group Institute, one of the reasons why many companies doubt teleworking is the security of their information in the homes of their employees. How can companies protect themselves? The first thing is that employees do not use their personal computer to access company resources. In addition, it must be ensured that the employee has a good antivirus configured, so that it cannot be disabled. For their part, companies must establish a backup policy, which protects the company from loss of information.
Since the pandemic, the use of medical services by digital means became the most popular method of consultation. Benefits such as being able to have an online appointment, without the waiting time or the fear of contagion, popularized this type of medicine. But one of the big problems of telemedicine is the flow of data from different devices, maximizing the risk of losing privacy of medical records.
The same goes for electronic banking. Theft of sensitive data remains the leading scam. Although cybercriminals have expanded the methods to achieve user information: email (Pishing), SMS (Smishing) and phone call (Vishing). Another scam, which has become popular in the last year is the duplication of SIM cards.
Cyber insurance
Cyber insurance is a type of insurance that protects users and companies from situations caused in the digital environment. This can be contracted by companies to protect any type of incident that occurs in the digital habitat, either in the infrastructure or due to some activity. Insurers assess the risk and require companies to adopt a series of protective measures to contract the service. This covers civil or third-party liability, liability for loss of personal data, coverage for data hosted in the cloud, coverage for claims, among other benefits
The challenges of cybersecurity
Companies used to control the security of their infrastructure. Now, in the cloud (especially public clouds), this security is implemented by the service provider, so it is necessary to establish, in a clear way, the protection measures that the company needs.
On the other hand, zero trust is a trend that is based on the continuous monitoring and authentication of users accessing the company's private network. By using Zero Trust, the volume of data compromised by an institution is drastically reduced.
But not all are advantages, it requires a greater investment and supposes a greater complexity in the implementation, which translates into a greater need for economic resources. But an investment that will always be worth it.
