Ethical Hacking, Application Security and SOC to control threats to IT environments

Ethical Hacking, Application Security and SOC in the control of protection to IT environments

Security has always been an essential theme for IT and, at this strategic moment, companies need to be strongly committed to maintaining certified teams for a set of operations that ensure greater risk control as well as compliance with the LGPD rules.

The constant advances in IT bring, in addition to benefits, a huge concern with data security. During the pandemic, with changing needs and work routines, these concerns intensified and technological resources grew in importance. After all, they are the ones that allow to circumvent many of the Covid-19's impacts on the economy, enabling remote solutions that mitigate the limitations imposed by the crisis. In a context in which the widespread use of technology increases the circulation of data, care for the security of that data also increases, leading IT to act in new infrastructures that face the present moment, but also adapt to what will come next, since the circulation of data only tends to intensify. And companies must have security operations centers that control threats in their IT environments, using an integrated series of features, such as:

– Ethical Hacking - Strong ally of cybersecurity, where professionals (hacking ethical or white hat hackers), starting from the same technological and tactical knowledge as the dreaded black hat hackers, work in the opposite direction, detecting system vulnerabilities, anticipating possible attacks and seeking preventive solutions that reinforce security protocols, improve internal processes and protect the integrity of information.

– Application Security - In view of the unlikely existence of non-vulnerable systems, it is important to adopt features that protect security gaps in applications that, often because they are common, can be considered harmless. A security system must guarantee confidentiality, integrity and availability of data, in order to preserve information, allow authorized access, recover any damage and have a maintenance control that avoids the incidence of failures.

– Security Operation Center (SOC) – Installation that houses information security teams responsible for continuously monitoring processes to detect, analyze and respond to incidents on networks, servers, terminals, databases, applications, websites and other systems, looking for irregularities. Its performance, aligned to incident response teams, ensures faster and more effective resolutions.

To implement a security operations control infrastructure (firewalls, IDS / IPS, breach detection solutions and a security information and event management system (SIEM), companies must define an appropriate strategy for their business not only in search of vulnerabilities, but, above all, aiming to comply with LGPD regulations regarding the collection, storage and treatment of data under their responsibility. The pandemic points out measures to be taken by IT professionals so that, in adapting to new traffic patterns, they are attentive to the architecture and security of projects, in a true risk management.

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