With the improvement in technology, businesses are prone to new and unique challenges, which need different and more advanced management. Many surveys indicate that although businesses continue to increase their investments and dependencies in IT resources, they are not doing enough to protect themselves from technological risks. Protiviti’s survey indicated that businesses are prone to ten major risks due to advancing technologies: The biggest threat being the information security, followed by cloud computing, risk management, and governance, regulatory management, technology integration, and up-gradation, resource and infrastructure management, fraud monitoring and disaster recovery.
Businesses monitoring their technological advancements with efficient risk management and IT security programs and audits succeed in their endeavors. With better technologies companies develop better and effective communication, increase productivity, and save business costs by automating operations and processes. Classic examples of effective communication via advanced technologies include high-speed internet with high-end computer technologies that aid in video conferences and meetings to communicate effectively and remotely. This, in turn, reduces the travel costs and time for the business leading to higher productivity
Due to the efficient technologies, firms will be able to improve market their business models and reach out to the greater level of the community. The use of social use techniques to advertise improves the quality of the business product. Out of all technology protects businesses from cyber attacks and viruses. The business data will be quickly compromised if companies don’t strengthen security on networks and computers. Hence the technological advancements provide endless benefits if efficient management plans are carried out.
The benefits of technology cannot be quantified as a direct ratio between the return and sent. It is a complex calculation that should in that indirect benefit. For example, using a high-speed internet as discussed above does,t guarantee a high yield for the business. The better use of that technology might aid in better success at a rate. Similarly, there are other important issues with advancing technologies that must be addressed by the companies as discussed below.
Cybersecurity is critical in today’s world where we need to control the safety of every party and protect one from attackers/hackers who steal personal information and other parties who collect personal knowledge of the user without the user’s consent. There are several risks in the cyber world on sharing own content and using the services of the website's sus social networks and using the cloud service Cybersecurity risks arise from the usage of the internet and on sharing information on the Internet as it is an unsecured medium. Importance of the importance of cybersecurity and such as losing money and data, data leakage, hacked, infected with viruses and worms. Inf, information leakage is the biggest threat that can ever be and is the primitive consequence of the world in cybersecurity (Steven and Bulter, 2016).
Risk management is where cybersecurity in the business have to be handled. In IT security management the risks must be identified, defined, quantified, and managed. It is especially more and more concerning for the companies to invest in such a solution to proa identity a level of safety for their private data which could contain sensitive information, public data regarding their customers and analytical, data all at the same time. Companies need to invest in an all-purpose system which can fullythatate in the given conditions of the requirements that are presented as a challenge to the companies.
Information Technology plays a critical role in many organizations in risk-assessment and risk management processes. When processes a business or organization, it is essential to have a risk analysis and assessment of what lies ahead of you in the industry. IT helps you with that. With data analytics, tools to foresee the growth, and recommend methods and inclusion of technology, information technology be practiced as an enabler for the risk-evaluation manner. It is always implemented to identify risks in the business, with dealings, and IT helps you to reduce or manage those risks and to develop a plan and action in the event of a crisis. Thus, the role of information technology in the risk-assessment process is enormous. It is the most strategic capital and valid information provider, which helps the business to succeed. Risk assessment involves measuring potential risks, monitoring, and controlling the chances to meet the targets and objectives and to cause low risk in the dealings of the business
Cybersecurity and risk management can be considered as the parts of time coin. Both serve their purpose to safeguard the private data while the significant differences being in the area of implementation. Risk management can be considered as the development of a contingency plan n which in some cases can be viewed as a sort of a last case defense strategy while cybersecurity essentially is the first line of defense against the attacks to the information or the data.
For my company, as an IT manager, I would start by upgrading the current system to the specific standards while all the physical access points would be pointed. New all in one data protection tools will be implemented which will contain software such as data encryption, network management, and security, anti-virus and firewall, and a level ba, sed access system which will allow only a certain amount of data available to a particular person is permanently safeguarding the rest of the data. I would also invest in cloud services as a data backup center and protect the data from any corruption during any attacks or system failure.
Organizations should be producing constant risk management and appraisal and a plan to get out and dodge those risks and be adapted for risky professions. Risk management should be there in an organization. It consists of following, orient, decide, and act on the events that may lead to risk. The company will separate the risk and manage it in a better way. Risk analysis should be done majorly on the analysis phase of the chance to avoid and be prepared for the opportunity and in case of also unforeseen risks. The better approach is the approach where we implement continuous risk management.
I don't get most of the article, because I have not much knowledge about cybersecurity but I can tell that your article is insightful