Awareness – A Key Requirement To Mitigate Digital Risks
Awareness – A Key Requirement To Mitigate Digital Risks
Digital risk mitigation refers to the strategies adopted by companies to detect potential cyber threats to their operations and business. It is a preventive process that, when well defined, improves the identification of blows, promotes reactions that mitigate their negative impacts, and ensures good governance.
Digital risk is the likelihood of data exposure or loss resulting from a cyber attack on an organization. It refers to any potential risk of financial loss, interruption of operations or damage to reputation resulting from the failure of information security systems, whose pillars are confidentiality, integrity and availability. Global connectivity exposes organizations to digital risks, leaving them vulnerable to increasingly frequent threats. Today, traditional IT security controls are not enough. Companies need security tools and programs capable of mitigating these threats, in addition to periodic assessments and definitions of strategies as preventive measures. Today, digital risk is a business risk, which makes security issues go beyond the IT area and involve the top management of organizations.
Before talking about risk mitigation, however, it is necessary to talk about the awareness of these same risks, so that, more than knowing them and trying to reduce them, it is possible to act in order to avoid them as much as possible. The task is not simple, as there is still little understanding of the correct and safe use of the internet to escape the weaknesses and problems that are inherent to it, but some actions can be applied - by everyone and everyone - as a means of protection.
In addition to disclosing good practices, guidelines on possible scams and risks, companies must:
1. Raise awareness among employees, based on clear and didactic training and communications on preventive actions and the use of cryptography.
2. Create an IT management policy that makes systems more effective, productive and safe in all sectors, from maintenance to monitoring.
3. Automate the routines, in order to eliminate repetitive bureaucratic activities, focusing on solving problems that reduce errors and increase productivity.
4. Inventory your IT assets so that the company's infrastructure is known and costs with underused software licenses can be reduced.
5. Prioritize the highest risks, in order to prioritize the weaknesses of the systems, ensuring the quick resolution of the most critical ones.
6. Define metrics and performance indicators that allow the assessment and the more targeted and strategic action of IT professionals.
7. publish results to all those involved, as feedback on the actions taken.
Risk mitigation requires full knowledge of the processes and full awareness of actions and their consequences. Measuring threats and their impacts allows the probability of an event to be calculated, responses to be properly planned and their results monitored, in order to maintain security control of the company and its digital assets. When properly applied, these measures generate effects that are reflected in the quality of management, increased productivity and business continuity.
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