There is no doubt that technology has changed how we do business today and every business whether big or small has some form of information technology operating at the core of their business. The digital commercial world is getting bigger every single day and now you can do commerce with individuals and entities from all across the globe. Due to the pandemic that we had to experience over the past three years, many businesses find themselves switching from the high street stores to their online stores where they have found great success.
It is the case that many businesses now want to continue on with their e-commerce platforms and so in order for that to be successful, they need to have the right kind of Internet security in place to protect not only their information patents and trade secrets, but the information of the customers. There is no doubt that there are people out there who want to steal your innovative ideas and to steal your money as well. This is why every IT platform needs enterprise vulnerability management to ensure that their business is protected every step of the way.
If you are naive enough to think that your IT platform is ignored because you are a much smaller business then you are sadly mistaken. There are many different kinds of security threats to your business’ IT systems that are usually addressed with the help of threat modeling solutions, and the following are just some of them.
- Ongoing disruption – When cyber criminals take an interest in your particular business and your particular IT platform then they will do whatever they can to disrupt your business in an attempt to weaken it so that they may damage its integrity. By letting them do such things, it is costing you both time and money and stops your business from being more productive. There is also the danger of ransomware attacks where they will steal your company information and only give it back when you send them money.
- False information – Technology is a wonderful thing but with that comes many downsides as well. One such thing is that the information on your business website could be compromised and so your customers could be reading false information about your business enterprise and the services that you offer. When this happens, it completely damages your businesses reputation and in today’s very competitive business world, your reputation and your brand or everything. Information could be planted on your website and encourages customers to send money to a particular destination that is not your own and so customers use their money and you will be blamed.
Throughout any business day, your IT platform will experience hackers trying to breach your security protocols and even if you have cloud security in place, they will be constantly trying to hack that as well. More and more businesses are sending people out on the road to drum up new business and so these same employees need access to your IT platform from anywhere in the country. These remote working environments lead to a lot more security threats and so you need to have more security measures put in place.