How to assess your company’s information security

Cyber threat and vulnerability management has never faced so many challenges. While there are many digital vulnerability scanning tools to prevent different attacks and detect different types of cyber threats, the effectiveness of these digital tools lies in applying good cybersecurity practices in your company.

Prevent the hijacking of your information

One of the most recognized viruses or malware is ransomware. It is a type of malware or malicious code that infects in order to prevent the use of your computers or systems.

How does ransomware work? The cybercriminal takes control of your computers or systems that they have infected and Kidnaps by encrypting the information, blocking the screen, preventing you from accessing it completely because you no longer have authorization. In those cases, to regain control of your information, you will have to pay the ransom in order to have access to your systems again.

Ransomware is just one example of what can happen in your organization as a result of not having cybersecurity measures in place that can provide you with advanced digital protection.

The absence or lack of updating of cybersecurity tools puts your company at risk from:

✓) Theft and/or leakage of information

✓) Data penetration

✓) Virus infection

✓) SQL Injection

✓) DDoS

✓) Zero-Day Attacks

✓) Hash Exploitation

Protect your business from cyberattacks

Implement international frameworks or standards. These are frameworks that aim to facilitate the solution of cybersecurity problems. For example, when you apply ethical hacking (EH) scanning and application vulnerability analysis to your systems, you are carrying out digital security processes in accordance with best practices such as OWASP methodologies, NIST standards, and cybersecurity tools.

Follow these best practices to strengthen your company’s cybersecurity and prevent malware

1. Update your systems
2. Patches
3. Block open ports
4. Classifies the most sensitive and confidential information
5. Monitor systematically
6. Implement and automate your processes
7. Raise awareness among your employees

To consolidate the above, we recommend that you carry out a cybersecurity diagnosis in your company, based on the following actions:

• Perform vulnerability scans or tests
• Run Pentesting Tests
• Conducts audits of ISO/IEC 27001:2013, NIST, 27018
• Identify the processes of each of your systems
• Identify the criticality of your organization’s assets
• Set the frequency of scans (running vulnerability scanning tools).
• It has a ReadTeam service

Learn about some advantages that your company acquires by having adequate cybersecurity measures in place:

✓ Prevents a ransomware event that can result in a $20 million ransom payment.

✓ Build trust with your customers

✓ Get corporate security

✓ Help developers have fewer bugs thanks to pentesting.

✓ Avoid millions of dollars in losses in sensitive data and/or unrecognized purchases.

And when elaborating on the benefits offered by the implementation of digital security measures in your company, these capabilities that you can obtain stand out:

• Identifies technical vulnerabilities that cannot be detected by an organizational vulnerability analysis.
• Identifies and classifies findings according to international risk management standards such as CVSSv3.1
• Develop a solution and continuous improvement plan based on the findings detected
• It classifies vulnerabilities according to their level of risk: critical, high, low, informative.
• It provides evidence of exploitation and the impact it generates in your organization.

When you carry out this type of good practice, you reinforce the security in the code of your applications, avoiding large cybersecurity gaps, gaps that digital criminals take advantage of.

Do you have questions or would you like to learn more?

At Itera we can provide you with consulting services and solutions, pentesting, vulnerability testing, social engineering, ReadTeam service and audits, among others.

Contact a Contact an account executive: irma.monroy@iteraprocess.comspecialist: seguridad@iteraprocess.com

Adopting new technologies as a fundamental part of the evolutionary process of digital transformation involves knowing, identifying and understanding new risks, incidents, events, vulnerabilities and threats that companies may be facing.

What is Information Security Assessment?

It is a process that helps organizations identify, analyze, and enforce security controls at the site or workstation.

In this sense, and to avoid any cyber threat or risk, we must carry out an assessment or checklist, with which it is possible to take corrective measures immediately to avoid a great cost in the future.

What is information security?

It is the set of preventive and reactive measures, both of organizations and of technological systems, that allow safeguarding and protecting information, as well as maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data.

What controls should we evaluate for information security?

We must use the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 standard, considered one of the most important International Standards on the subject and which allows the assurance, confidentiality, integrity and availability of data or information, as well as the systems that process it.

In this sense, ISO/IEC 27001:2013 contains “Annex A” which, in turn, has 14 domains, 35 control objectives and 114 controls to, depending on the risk analysis and the statement of applicability that is made, allow us to select those that apply, while justifying those that are excluded.

In the following image you can see annexes 5 to 18:

Benefits of Information Security Assessment:

• Provides structure of the management system.
• Reduce the risk of having a security incident.
• It offers greater security to companies.
• It increases the prestige of the organization.
• Improves customer confidence.

How can we help strengthen security in your organization?

From the Delivery Force area, at Itera we suggest implementing different types of policies and controls to maintain and preserve the integrity and confidentiality of information, all based on compliance with international standards such as ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and ISO/IEC 27002:2022.

Do you have questions or would you like more details?

At Itera we can provide you with consulting services and solutions on audits, Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), cybersecurity, cloud and compliance with ISO/IEC 27001:2013 standards, as well as ISO/IEC 27002:2022.

To receive a free consultation, contact our team of specialists: seguridad@iteraprocess.com