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'Companies need to be more proactive on cyber security measures'
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SME Times News Bureau | 02 Dec, 2020
As the Covid pandemic has brought about a sea change in the operations
of most companies with work from home becoming the trend over the past
8-10 months, cyber security experts are of the view that several
companies still need to be more proactive in terms of strengthening
their systems against cyber attacks.
Arpinder Singh, India &
Emerging Markets Leader, EY Forensic & Integrity Services noted that
a large number companies have been largely reactive, rather than
proactive regarding cyber security during the pandemic.
"I think
some organisations have been proactive and some organisations have been
reactive. Reactive means they have actually had an incident and then
they have run around trying to fix it, I think some companies have been
smart, when someone has been hit, they have analysed that loss and then
thought of protecting themselves. But that's a slow process in the
pandemic... everyone has tight budget," he said.
"I am seeing the proactive side, but not as much as I should be," Singh added.
He
also said that with the data privacy bill coming in, companies will be
directly or indirectly forced quickly adopt the best practices in terms
of cyber security.
He noted that in Europe, after GDPR was
introduced, European companies had taken several steps as data privacy
and cyber security are linked.
"Acts like the data privacy bill,
if they come faster, I think that will help the whole air, environment
and infrastructure as it leads to cyber."
He added that with the
amount of feedback coming in and the magnitude of e-commerce
happening, the government should be considering some more policy
measures to curb cyber threats.
Singh also laid stress on the
training of employees both in the government and private sectors. He
also said that Artificial Intelligence will play a role in keeping
companies' network and infrastructure robust.
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