While companies continue investing in building new and better security tools, they often overlook the frontline of their defense: humans. Whether it is your employees, or your third-party contractors and vendors, every individual involved with your organization should be responsible for maintaining security.
Here are some questions that will help you evaluate if your security policies are properly implemented:
- Have you created a security-first culture in your organization?
- Do you have strong security policies in place?
- Do you monitor user access control?
- Are all your employees complying with security standards?
- Do you apply the same security protocols and policies to third-party vendors and contractors? If not, how do you ensure they work in compliance with your security policies?
Whether it is monitoring user access privileges to ensure each individual has access to only the information that is required for them to complete their job, or implementing strong password policies, organizations should take preventive security measures to avoid data breaches at all costs.
Data breaches have severe impacts on organizations. They not only affect their brand reputation but also put their customers at risk.
Here are some of the long-term effects a data breach can have on your business:
mage Courtesy: Cypress Data Defense
Author Bio – Aaron Cure
Aaron Cure is the Principal Security Consultant at Cypress Data Defense and an instructor and contributing author for the Dev544 Secure Coding in .NET course.
After 10 years in the U.S. Army, I decided to switch my focus to developing security tools and performing secure code reviews, penetration testing, static source code analysis, and security research.
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