Cyber-attacks has grown with the surging adoption of the BYOD policy

Ashis Guha
CEO, Rah Infotech

With the number of devices getting connected to the network increasing, the attack surface was expected to grow.  During the ongoing pandemic, BYOD practices happened over communications network that are not fully secured as employees had to resort to various internet networks including public and mobile networks. BYOD has increased the probability of more cyber-attacks.

As the entire world worked from home (WFH) during the pandemic, the hitherto not-so-tech-using domains like education, sports, healthcare professionals, entertainment professionals etc had to use UC solutions as well as mobile banking to offer their services. All these factors combined, opened up newer channels for the bad guys to enter into the cyber space and eventually cyber attacks increased.

Every organization has to follow three key guiding principles that needs to be followed to protect data. First, enterprises should select the right kind of technologies to secure their data and the selection should always correspond to the kind of business they are in and the kind of problem they want to solve. A tech solution for BFSI may not be too right for, say, manufacturing.

Second, a robust security policy at the enterprise level. This clearly defines the do’s and don’ts which ultimately minimizes the security vulnerabilities. And the policy should be revisited time to time keeping pace with the changing global cyber practices and industry dynamics and finally always have a plan B. It has been noticed, despite all the security apparatus functioning perfectly well, the bad guys, at times, breach the wall. In those cases, it’s always better to have a system ready that can retrieve the lost data. For that a robust and reliable data backup solution should be there.

RAH Infotech, with the help of its technology OEMs, offers data security solution at every stage and on every layer. From securing the network, to secure data at every layer, we offer end to end data management solutions for securing data including data storage, back up, and recovery.