InstaSafe leveraging its three dimensional risk assessment methodology to assess the risk

Sandip Kumar Panda
CEO, Co-founder, Instasafe

Protection against cybercrime

India observed more than 6.07 lakh cybersecurity incidents in the first six months of 2021. Cybercrime has drastically increased as people try to benefit from vulnerable business systems. When we talk about cybersecurity there exist five main challenges of it that include phishing scams, attacks of IoT, the adaption of 5G technology, the emergence of a remote workplace, and attacks of cryptocurrency and blockchain. In addition to these, the most significant everyday challenges of cyber security also include breaching of data, threats of cloud security, threats dissipation, ransomware and malware, and many more. Within 2-6 hours of a data breach, the Reserve Bank of India has made it essential to notify the regulator of any such cybercrime event. Watchdog groups in India such as CERT-In have mandated that corporations, service providers, and intermediaries reveal how much data has been compromised and notify workers and consumers of this. A prevalent belief is that the government will protect us and our businesses from any threats, which is simply not the case. A joint effort between businesses and the government is needed to combat cybercrime.

Solutions to prevent Distributed DoS attacks (DDoS)

There are different techniques used to mitigate DDoS such as having distributed assets in the network which will reduce the attack surface, Rate limiting technique which will limit the number of requests a server will accept over a time period from a particular IP, having Web Application Firewall (WAF), adding rules to your gateway infrastructure which accepts traffic from a legitimate source.

One of the effective ways to mitigate DDoS attacks for enterprise application servers is hiding from malicious users. It can be achieved by using Zero Trust Access for enterprise applications that use drop-all firewall rules in your gateway infrastructure. It drops all the traffic which doesn’t come from legitimate devices. A fundamental principle here is “A hacker can’t attack what it cannot detect”. 

Approach to the current situation

Based on the Zero Trust philosophy of “Never Trust, Always Verify”, InstaSafe’s Zero Trust solution provides seamless secure connectivity of on-premise and cloud resources to workforce situated anywhere in the world. InstaSafe leverages its three dimensional risk assessment methodology to assess the risk and trust associated with every user, device, and application prior to establishing the connection. Once this process of comprehensive authentication is complete, the user is granted access, but only to the applications that he is authorized to access, while the entire network remains inaccessible.