In 2022, digital information and technology are more highly integrated into our daily activities than it was before! Though it helps in fueling innovation and driving organizational agility, it has also increased our threat landscape to a huge extent.
Organizations across the globe are feeling the toll of cyber-attacks and maintaining business continuity today rests entirely on the ability to protect their network and data. To perform this successfully it’s crucial to understand the different types of cybersecurity and how they help in defending against diverse threats.
Objectives of Cybersecurity
Network Security
Endpoint Security
Cloud Security
Application Security
Identity Security – The future of cybersecurity
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Therefore, risk assessments, data backups, and cost estimation for reconstruction will help your organization to stay prepared and look ahead for potential losses. But apart from all the aforementioned, knowing how to formulate the objectives of cybersecurity will help you safeguard your devices, data, and networks from attacks, destruction, or unauthorized access. The three main objectives of cybersecurity are confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
You can address your availability concerns and ensure the retrieval of data at the right time by…
Data backups
Disaster recovery
Proper monitoring and environmental controls.
Having discussed the objectives of IT security, let us now explore some of the types of cybersecurity that you should consider!
Network security is a broad term that encompasses the activities and controls that are designed to protect the integrity of your networking infrastructure. It involves defending your data against threats, unauthorized access, intrusions, misuse, and breaches. The controlling of network security can be categorized as physical, technical, and administrative.
Physical – Prevents unauthorized physical access to the network infrastructure, including data centers, routers, and servers.
Technical – Protects data within the network whether stores or in transit.
Administrative – Includes security processes and policies that control the network access.
Threats to the network can come in the form of…
Malware & Viruses
Malicious Hackers
Denial of Service (DoS) & Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
Hardware, firmware, or software vulnerabilities and
Insider threats
Network security will ensure the security of the entire underlying network infrastructure, right from the devices and applications to the end users.
With the elevation of trends such as workplace mobility, remote culture, and bring your own devices (BYOD), the network today has become increasingly perimeter-less! As employees are leveraging both their corporate and personal devices to access network assets and resources from anywhere, safeguarding the security of endpoints in the perimeter-less architecture is a mandate!
The endpoints that need to be secured include…
Phishing and social engineering attacks
Credential theft
Cryptojacking.
Cloud Security is the need of the hour, especially when organizations are increasingly adopting cloud technologies! Some of the common aspects of cloud security include solutions for…
Whether you’re using public, private, or hybrid clouds, this kind of cybersecurity has several unique challenges like less visibility, complex multi-cloud environments, and increased compliance hassles! Since the services are accessed outside the network and are managed by the third-party provider, your IT team will only have limited visibility into the data stored in the cloud. Provided the reliance on an outside provider when you leverage public clouds will add an extra burden to your regulatory compliance management process.
Applications and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the areas that exhibit high vulnerability in today’s threat landscape! When there is a presumption that application security is a focus area only for the developers, this is not the case in a modern enterprise setup! Because application security today goes beyond the development and design process! It is no longer an icing that is laid on top of the Infrastructure as a Code, instead, they are also included in CI/CD pipelines as part of Shift Left Security and DevSecOps initiatives!
The security of your applications can be affected by the following factors…
DDoS attacks
SQL & other code injections
Simplifies integration with stakeholders and applications.
Lack of proper encryption
Misconfigurations.
Internet security aims at protecting users and corporate assets from attacks that travel over the internet. It mitigates the risks that are associated with the internet, web browsers, web apps, websites, and applications. Although network and cloud security help in defending against internet threats, the prevalence and amplitude of these threats demand placing internet security into its own category.
As your enterprise is progressing in all phases of digital transformation, most of your operations tend to revolve around identities and access to digital information. This is when identity security steps in and renders a significant security advantage to your enterprise by protecting the threats that target your digital identities.
Digital identities are required to enable employees with access to technology. But when they are not managed and governed properly, your digital identities and their associated accesses can pose a huge risk to your enterprise security.
No matter whether you are adapting to remote work culture, having a multi-cloud environment, or embracing a BYOD system, identity security will stand as a protective shield to your identities and will secure your enterprise against all identity-based threats!
Wherever your business goes, or whoever it works with, incorporating a comprehensive cyber security strategy is a must in this ever-evolving threat landscape!
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