Time’s up! Cybersecurity compliance is no longer optional for global businesses as IT standards and regulations increase at both state and industry levels, worldwide.
Misappropriation of user identity is one of the root causes of many serious cybersecurity incidents. The threat can appear as a malicious actor impersonating an authorized system user, a hacker creating a fictitious user account, or a legitimate user taking improper actions. In each case, security managers may have trouble detecting the actions of an ill-intentioned user or they discover the problem after the fact.
Maintain a relationship of mutual confidence with your customer
As an external provider of IT services, whether you are ensuring the remote maintenance of critical equipment or managing a part, or the totality of a client's IT infrastructure, transparency is crucial.
Not only should you provide best-in-class technical services in a timely manner, but you must also comply with security and regulations, control and defend your costs, and you have to provide a high level of process and quality.
Because let’s face it, if a single thing goes wrong, each and every action you take will be under scrutiny.
While the modern business world becomes ever more digital, the need for insurance remains consistent across time. Lloyds of London, for instance, dates to the 17th century, building a global reputation for meeting the ever-changing requirements for insurance.
Unlike the 17th century, however, today’s demand is for cyber insurance.
With digitized business processes and data migrating to the Cloud, IT security is the biggest challenge organizations face, with a need to defend against data theft and other cyber-crime in an increasingly digital economy.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) present a good news story for service providers, but security challenges remain. AWS gives service providers a way to grow their businesses without having to deal with many of the hassles and costs of maintaining a cloud infrastructure. A Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP), for instance, can let AWS do the heavy lifting for them, supplying an essentially infinitely scalable infrastructure.
