Digital Transformation 2020: Innovating Business Basics
Rimesh Patel CEng
What it means for Cyber Security.
In this new norm, cyber security remains a non-functional requirement. By focusing on keeping your core business services lean, strategised and cost effective you can better overlay a lens of cyber security, or professionally said, review what non-functional requirements are required for your digitally transformed business and associated services.
From a customer perspective, you might have transformed services with increased functionality, usability or security enhancements;
From a business perspective, did you enable, humanise, harmonise and empower your business services to better work with new trends like Last Mile, Security Orchestration, Automation, & Response (SOAR), Big Data, Autonomous Robotics, Artificial Machine Intelligence (AI), Supplier API-Integration, Smart IoT, Cloud or Augmented Reality - it's only just beginning, so it's time to get comfortable with what 'security by design' means for you as you innovate your business;
From a cyber security perspective, your digital transformation plan should make sure your risk benefits are balanced for;
Obsolete Technology: Increased Risk (Legacy Technology Debt).
Technology Innovation: Risk Reduction (Optimised Business).
Decrease Failure Rate: Increase Business Resilience (Cost Efficiency).
New ways of working will inherently introduce new attack surfaces, so you need to understand how your risk appetite can effect your new energised business model - are you now augmented into an online-platform, or as a sole trader is your content on social platforms driving your core services, as a business are you providing flexible working mechanisms, increasing community volunteering activities or about to move away from pyramid structures to concentric business units. Every business purpose will have its own digital footprint and by knowing yours, you can demonstrate better cyber security accountability - who knows, you might even save on cyber insurance premiums.
Not only should you want to demonstrate transparently your digital responsibilities towards your brand but why not make it easier to integrate into customer supply chains by proactively encouraging digital sovereignty and a better cyber security posture with a better grasp of governance, risk and compliance.
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For your customer it means they feel safe and confident that your products or services are less likely to get caught out by the trending hack in the news. For your business, it means you are not the weakest link in the supply chain, and for industry, you can interact with others who also demonstrate good governance a chosen threat and vulnerability management framework. A vulnerability management framework has to consider assets, inherent risks and frequency of threats, including; Secure Development Life Cycle Programme User Acceptance Testing & Penetration Testing Risk Remediation & Ownership Resilience Services Patch Scheduling A vulnerability management programme will unite the above into one programme that will increase your security posture. If you are dependent on your online internet facing servers, laptops or devices, then having a dedicate resource is recommended, you can also look at outsourcing repeatable activities, however assessing each risk should have final sign-off from internal leads only. Internal risk postures are constantly moving as are external ones, so making the assessment on how actual attack vectors are going to effect your core business activities is best done internally as the vulnerability categories for risk remediation is only understood by you - including how they effect your security policy. You might have a vulnerability management policy, especially if you are risk appetite is low or your core business interacts with regulated products like heath devices, smart vehicles, utility services or any critical service. Having a dedicated policy will let you validate you have selected the right framework to make assessments of each vulnerability and making sure old vulnerability patterns are not repeated. A good vulnerability management programme will make sure you own your risk and have the right security controls in place, even if you use compensatory controls, they too will be in scope for vulnerability tests, so you must know how your resilience frameworks take effect if those controls fails. SAIBER Ltd's Vendor Neutral Vulnerability Management package will let you execute vulnerability management efficiently by empowering your resources will the correct mechanisms that consider all the above, including technical assessments. #RUCyberReady