What It Takes to Secure Your Business Core

I think the following raises some excellent points about securing the digital core of your business. I’ve included a few of the highlights for you to get the gist of the article:

Going Deep

The digital core of a business comprises critical business processes, data and transactions. It holds the critical systems that keep your business up and running. If your digital core is compromised, revenue—if not the ability to stay in business—is in jeopardy.

Within the many tiers of your production systems, your digital core includes elements such as load balancers, gateways, servers, network devices and data storage. These elements are interconnected and interdependent, so disruption or outright failure at any tier threatens to paralyse the entire digital core. For example, if your gateway or API server were to be compromised or shut down unexpectedly, or your third-party data suppliers’ system were to stop functioning, the applications that depend on those APIs would also fail. Therefore, you should include these third parties in your digital core.

Leaving the Back Door Open

Because the digital core is critical to your business, building in redundancies and protect it at all tiers is imperative. Security professionals agree that there is no silver bullet for defense. Instead, they strongly advocate a comprehensive defense-in-depth strategy. Although most businesses do a decent job of defending applications using defense-in-depth principles, they often fall woefully short in applying those same principles across the full extent of their digital core.

What do you think? Maybe you’d like to read on? Check out the full version here then give me a call to discuss how this might impact your own business: (0433) 906-366. Alternatively, email me at shah.hardik@techflow.com.au.

Thanks,

Shah