‘DATA’ the Asset None Talk About
‘Data’ is and always be the key aspect of every organization. Currently, every industry is depended on the data, whether it could be information about the company or the personal information of consumers. Thus, making it a necessity to be protected from any sort of external breach. Be it an IT sector or any, the data itself is known as the oil for the business and must be considered as one.
The year 2020 was the one, where people were forced to stay inside amid COVID-19 pandemic. It was a silent chaos effecting many lives, resulting in social tension and political unrest. Along with this, one more issue emerged creating a lively tension in sphere of cyber security. Last year a Texas-based mid-size company SolarWinds faced hacking dilemma in its update, where a malicious program hidden inside the new update which apparently was Trojan horse enabled the accessibility in company’s data. It led hackers to interfere with petabytes of almost 18,000 private companies, including government sectors.
You must be thinking why SolarWinds has raised so much concern in the industry. Recently a similar attacked was witnessed in the biggest software development company Microsoft’ mail systems, the motive of attack was to gain access to the consumer’s activity to steal the data of various businesses. Due to such attack, Microsoft has issued an emergency patch which is closely tracked by the U.S. Government, as the chance of similar malicious activity could be experience in future. This emphasizes over the fact that every C-suite executive must indulge themselves in creating cybers strategies as these sort of hacks could led to substantial loses to the company as well as to its users.
Source : Business Magazine | Tycoon Success