Benefits of Cyber Security

Faced with the wave of computer attacks on companies worldwide, external cybersecurity services represent a reliable and economical option to prevent various threats.

Figures from the latest annual IT Security Risks study show that 25 percent of large companies and 28 percent of small and medium-sized enterprises have admitted that they lack the necessary internal resources and expertise in IT security, making their businesses vulnerable to computer attacks. Therefore, an alternative increasingly used by large, medium, and small companies is to hire external suppliers to ensure that the business information security needs are adequately covered.

For many years, companies have thought that cybersecurity was not related to the industrial world, that it was only essential to protect information at the IT level against possible attacks from phishing, malware, ransomware hackers were "smart guys" looking for notoriety.

However, this is not the case. Every day, companies are faced with different types of adversaries with very different motivations: cyber-spies seeking to gain strategic advantage, cyber-warfare seeking to destroy infrastructure, cyber-crime seeking economic gain, cyber-terrorism, cyber-activism, and even so-called cyber-malice, amateurs carrying out arbitrary attacks.

In recent years, significant attacks have marked a turning point in the perception of cybersecurity: theft of digital certificates, hacking of oil and gas companies, attacks on hospitals, the energy sector, and communications.

The reality is that there are more and more attacks, and because of this situation, it is essential to know what to do and take preventive measures. The solution involves a series of actions: implementing specific solutions, adopting measures that minimize the effect of downtime caused by a possible attack and the attack spectrum, analyzing and observing to know what is happening in our network, and, above all, making everyone in the company aware that they are playing a fundamental role in this fight.

Although 52 percent of the more than 4,000 companies surveyed in 25 countries by the Security Risks study assume that their IT security will be compromised at some point, factors such as the fixed costs of hiring an external provider to manage the company's IT security, and a certain amount of mistrust due to inadequate knowledge of these global services, mean that only a smaller percentage of SMEs have access to this type of service.

Therefore, in this delivery, we present the main benefits of hiring a service dedicated to managing various companies or organizations' information security.

Experience and specialization

Comprehensive security can be an incredibly complex task in your quest to minimize the potential risk of a cyber-attack. Therefore, this activity must be carried out by experienced and knowledgeable personnel who can guarantee the maintenance of the security network and the rapid continuity of the business activity in the event of an intrusion or loss of valuable information. In this context, outsourcing the services related to cybersecurity allows for more complex scopes than those you would obtain with your resources while guaranteeing that the activity will be monitored by professionals who are experts in the field and managed from resources suited explicitly to providing a quality service. Besides, this type of company keeps up to date with trends in threats and risks to security, providing immediate solutions to unforeseen problems.

Reduction of the impact of obsolescence

Information security management services are based on an eminently technological component and require continuous evolution and updating of equipment and systems to meet their clients' corporate challenges. In this way, hiring an external provider for these services significantly reduces the impact of equipment obsolescence, while ensuring that state-of-the-art devices support its security.

Outsourcing cybersecurity services also eliminates costs related to the acquisition of equipment or backup centers and the physical space they require.

Managed Cybersecurity Helps With Cost reduction

Outsourcing cybersecurity services represents a substantial economic saving compared to the cost of acquiring your software and hardware needed to -organically- implement such a service internally. It also reduces the costs of hiring staff dedicated to these tasks and, through a careful analysis made by the provider, can reduce costs related to the consumption of cloud or cloud storage.

Flexibility

Implementing an information security system managed within a company has certain limitations, such as the low capacity for scaling and low adaptability to new needs, either by the company's abrupt growth, mergers, or creation of new lines of business. Thus, it would be necessary to acquire new systems, tools, and adapt its collaborators to the necessary changes in the information security system.

Having an external cybersecurity provider, on the other hand, provides almost unlimited flexibility, being able to expand the service, which allows us to face different scenarios typical of the growth of small and medium enterprises or changes in the characteristics of the business.

Optimization of business processes

If we have an organization where everything works perfectly, it is too rare, and even if it did, it would be a temporary situation. Likely, organizations will not determine whether their internal organization has the most cybersecurity risks. IT organizations that are proliferating find a problem and do not find time to sit down and think about optimizing their internal processes. The consequence of this is that it is not well known who should make individual decisions, responsible for what, and much more. This type of situation is that workers lose time filling gaps in the company and lose time concentrating on their job.

Compliance

As we have said before, the first thing is to know the legislation. Suppose we find some regulation related to Information Security and support the cybersecurity project because of the importance that supposes the fulfillment of all the detected requirements. The main benefit obtained with this project is the tranquility that all the detected requirements are fulfilled.

Sometimes hackers can gain access to valuable corporate information. However, by contracting cybersecurity services, it is possible to categorize and prioritize cybersecurity alerts, instantly restrict the intruder, and recover stolen information. Maintaining data security is a practice that must be present in the organizational culture of any company to support data and information protection, which allows the optimal development of work tasks and, therefore, ensures the success of the company.