Protect your information and increase your cyber security with comprehensive access control solutions. Businesses, competitors, individuals and corporations are leaving more data vulnerable than ever before on account of social media and affordable software solutions. With an increasingly connected lifestyle, our highly vulnerable vital data must be protected. Your identity, finances, opinions, memberships, subscriptions, become the first thing to get attacked. According to the statistics, every 39 seconds there is a hacking attack and they steal 75 records per second. 3 million malwares are created everyday. 73% of cyber attackers believe that traditional firewalls and antivirus are an easy bait to get hacked.
The surge in the number of cybercrimes has resulted in irrecoverable damage to many leading organizations and few have permanently shut the doors.
Causes of Cyber Threats:
i) Hackers do it because they are paid to do so by competitors, politicians and people with malicious intent.
ii) Some layman learning to hack does it for recreation.
iii) Few others have a malicious intent to steal data, make money and put you out of business.
Status of your vulnerable systems:
i) Lack of cyber security infrastructure.
ii) No knowledge about system vulnerabilities.
iii) Inaccurate risk assessment of cyber-attacks.
More access more threat:
The more the access is granted to a user, the more vulnerable your system is for hacking. Because of the legitimate access provided to an employee or a super admin to a system, your system is 100 times more hackable. In such situations, having a complete background check of an individual whom the access is granted is a must. Check if the person or company serves for your competitors as well. Any suspicion must not be taken lightly. Thus, a highly secure access control system is one of the most sought after access control solutions recommended by cyber security analysts.
Identification of Threat:
- Listing of all your assets like hardware and software systems in use, lying dormant and suspended so far.
- Identification of vulnerabilities through various channels and media to those assets.
- Checking the CIA of the data i.e. confidentiality, integrity and availability in case of a cyber threat. This will lead to an accurate risk assessment of any cyber attacks that could happen in the future.
An access control system:
The most primary form of access control systems is biometric access. For marking the attendance of employees or students, it has a leading role to easily automate the incoming and outgoing through doors. It makes use of a unique fingerprint of the person and thus grants the access.
Imagine if the biometric data of a system is compromised, then the user’s biometric data is stolen. It can be used by some hackers to gain access into a person’s phone that is secured by fingerprints.
Similarly, access to data and information on a software is controlled with either biometric, password, captcha, multi-factor authentication and encryption are few of the access control systems that help secure data and protect you from unauthorized access to your system.
Types of Access Control:
1) Discretionary access control system (DAC)
2) Role based access control (RBAC)
3) Mandatory access control (MAC)The discretionary access control system provides access to doors or data in a system is based on the task required. This is the most primary form of access control used in Windows operating systems.
A role based access control system is the one where the super administrator assigns roles to individual users. The accesses are granted and restricted depending on their organizational hierarchy or authority. This makes sure very vital information from one department is not available to irrelevant departments thus streamlining the workflow. This holds true in case of data and door accesses both. E.g. access groups in Windows and Linux.
Mandatory access control has security labels defined to access privileges such as low, medium and high. This entitles the users with the privileges defined by the category and classification of the individual users. This is the most secure access control system. However, constant updation of objects and labels required by a mandatory access control takes thoughtful planning beforehand.
Who needs cyber security?
Everyone. Individuals need it to protect their information on social media, online banking, ecommerce purchases, and more. Companies who want to protect intellectual property, trade secrets, customer and employee data, and software assets need cyber security. Schools, banks, research labs, hospitals, social media, search engines, ecommerce websites and standalone websites, servers need cyber security too.
When to seek help?
Now. Consulting a cyber security expert should be done as quickly as possible if you have never contacted such an expert before. It is well said that prevention is better than cure. Preventing sneaky eyes of hackers and individuals from sucking the happiness out of your lives is important. You and your family must remain safe at all times without becoming a victim to trespassers, fraudsters and hackers. For your business, securing your assets is important at all times. The moment you lose a grip on your security, is the most vulnerable moment to a cyber threat to your organization.
Where to find a cyber security expert?
Perin7 Solutions in Bahrain provides gated door access control solutions with advanced cyber security of network and servers. Get a peace of mind with state-of-the-art security systems today
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