Protecting your company and products from cyberattacks requires more than just virus protection and firewalls. Our cybersecurity specialist for Tekla software, Jarkko Leminen, presents five security measures to follow.
People often think that cybersecurity boils down to virus protection and other tools. They think that all you have to do is install anti-virus software and you're safe. But this is not the case. Effective cybersecurity is much more holistic. It's everyone's responsibility: employees, suppliers, partners and all the other players in the data chain.
The world of cybersecurity is full of standards, frameworks and guides to follow, including SOC, ISO 27001 and the one we'll be looking at in this article: NIST. This well-known framework from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) details five main areas of security: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover.
Identify
First, you need to know what your assets are and what you're trying to protect. Is it data, software or hardware? You also need to carry out some kind of threat modeling to identify and compare the different risks associated with an asset. If a threat actor can compromise confidentiality, integrity or availability, you've found a risk and can calculate the risk score.
You can also work with cybersecurity companies who have a good understanding of the current global threat landscape. They can provide another view of your cybersecurity profile, and use penetration testing to identify potential vulnerabilities in your assets.
