Security
BACK TO BASICS
Quentyn Taylor, senior director – product, information security and global incident response at Canon EMEA looks at why cyber hygiene still matters in the age of AI and evolving threats.
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t is now a matter of when, and not if, businesses will experience a cyber-attack. As the importance of IT data processing and volume
of confidential business data grows, IT leaders are under increasing pressure to safeguard business critical operations and protect their reputations. To address the constant threat of cybercrime, IT
decision makers (ITDMs) are having to focus more time on managing information security than ever before, with Canon research showing that as many as half (50%) of ITDMs now report this as their most time-consuming task – up from 44% in 2021 . While emerging technologies such as AI can
certainly help and be part of a company’s cybersecurity proposition, it’s not the ultimate solution. It is instead crucial that security leaders continue to remain vigilant to the basics - as it is only by placing good every day security practices at the heart of their cyber strategy, and embedding them within company culture, that they can meet the persistent threats facing businesses today. To get started establishing good cyber hygiene, businesses must address four key steps.
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Mastering the basics Te most effective defences, and sometimes the hardest to get right, are the security basics. New emerging technologies, while promising, should never be used as a substitute for a strong cyber foundation. As the number of devices and locations
information is being accessed increases, thanks to hybrid working, maintaining the basics are even more important as ITDMs visibility over the network is reduced. It is common to find companies without an understanding of what services and servers they have exposed to the Internet.
Without consistently enforcing security basics such as multi
factor authentication (MFA), regularly updating soſtware and patches, businesses will be at significantly increased risk of a breach. It may seem simple, but most recent high-level attacks have
happened not as a result of sophisticated methods leveraging AI, but rather, malicious actors able to get access through what looked like a minor issue. For example, the password spray method, checking if users are using the same password on multiple systems, can
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