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Importance of a Comprehensive Cybersecurity Review

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Mahendra Patel
Importance of a Comprehensive Cybersecurity Review

The amount of business lost because of cyber-attacks averaged 1.52 million dollars, a report by IBM states.

2020 was a year smacked by unprecedented cybercrimes with a soaring number of data breaches, state-sponsored cyberattacks, and ransomware attacks. Even the major organizations, including VMware, Nvidia, Intel, and Cisco, fell victim to malware attacks. According to the Wall Street Journal report, IT company Orion software was targeted by malware attack into their systems to access critical data of blue-chip companies, universities, hospitals, and other government agencies.

In June 2021, LinkedIn found that 700 million of its users’ data had been posted on a dark web forum. The breach has impacted more than 90% of its user base. It was discovered that a hacker ‘God User’ posted a scraped data sample containing information that includes email addresses, phone numbers, geolocation records, gender identifiers, and other social media details. The hacker said that the data was obtained through LinkedIn’s Application Programming Interface (API).

Also, Dubsmash, Adobe, My Fitness Pal, NetEase, and numerous other businesses have borne the brunt of similar attacks, which have badly impacted millions of user accounts.

Data will be the leading concern for businesses all around the world. To protect online data from malicious attacks, Cybersecurity has become an essential practice for all businesses. A Cybersecurity review pinpoints potential threats to a business by conducting an in-depth assessment of systems and processes within an organisation.

Cyberattacks can happen to any type and level of the organization at any time. Social engineering, ransomware, phishing, and spyware are the most common types of cyber-attacks.

Cybersecurity review: The protection against cyberthreats

A comprehensive cybersecurity review is designed to identify the emerging threats and facilitate coherent policies and processes. It involves the detection and alleviation of security risks threatening the business. It identifies vulnerabilities in the system and matches them to potential internal and external cyber threats. The review process aims to measure the company's security posture, checking whether the company abides by the compliance requirements and industry frameworks.

Why should companies undertake regular cybersecurity reviews?

Attempts of cyber-attacks have increased in both frequency and sophistication as threat actors are trying to benefit from the unusual circumstances under which almost all of us are working.

It is crucial to perform frequent cybersecurity audits to combat these threats and identify potential security gaps on enterprise networks.

 

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