As an information security professional, I am often asked by managers and owners of SMBs on how they can protect their businesses from a cyber-attack. I have therefore decided to put together a playbook that may assist these businesses to protect themselves or in worst case scenario withstand a cyber-attack. I have tried to list...
In the previous post; The human factor in cybersecurity: Employees, we have seen how human factor affects the overall cybersecurity posture of an organization. We classified employees as unwitting and malicious and saw how unwitting employees get duped in compromising the organization’s security policies. We also learned about a methodology to educate the unwitting employees...
We have been hearing a lot about humans being the weakest link in cybersecurity management. We have also seen a lot of surveys and research reports indicating the same. The one below that is attributed to IBM says 95% of all successful cyber-attacks are caused by human error. What does this mean to a business...
Definition: Social engineering (in the context of information security) is the use of deception to manipulate individuals into divulging confidential or personal information that may be used for fraudulent purposes. The current pandemic (COVID-19) has offered a plethora of opportunities for the bad-actors to put their social engineering skills to wreck mayhem. Sudhakar S Narayan,...
During the current pandemic while the majority of us are forced to work from homes, we in the cybersecurity profession are quite busy trying to safeguard all critical infrastructure from bad actors who are making use of this situation to achieve their sinister objectives. In the past few months we have seen an increase in...
The need for automation is industries can be very many. Protection of workers, improvement of efficiency and releasing human capital from monotonous tasks for redeployment in other better rewarding jobs are a few that quickly come to my mind. Automation has opened up relatively new vistas of opportunities including robotics. Extending the benefits of automation...