Here are 5 key things you should know:

1- Information security is a guarantee of risk mitigation
Have you ever thought about how much it might hurt if a former employee still has access to your information? Or what you are protecting when you monitor access to your information?

Data is your main asset, so these questions that often don’t get your attention, or you just think they’re “under control” are potentially dangerous. 

Therefore, by prioritizing who accesses, with certain permissions and when this important information is accessed, you are controlling the risks caused by critical data leakage.

2-The adoption of new practices is only possible with knowledge and an organizational behavior change
This idea applies to all types of companies: there is no solid system without a change in behavior to support it.

If employees, for example, were used to sharing their passwords, it will be necessary to motivate and effectively explain to them why a change in behavior is necessary for the purpose of obtaining their commitment.

As a consequence, leaders should assume a key role to communicate the benefit of these initiatives.

3- Resetting access allocation processes.
At HWSI our vision is to reconsider the role of the IT areas. Previously, these areas were responsible for assigning access to each member: new employees or changes in company roles.

However, we believe  that a more effective role for the IT area should be the design of the circuits and processes for generating permissions and its implementation. And then, Management should be the one to manage access and identities since they are more familiar with each employee and their role.

4- Promote an Identity Management Authentication (IAM) process.
The internal dynamics in companies make them lose track of who has access to what information, and whether it is really necessary.

That’s why the IAM process monitors permissions to detect inconsistencies and take the necessary actions to revoke unnecessary access.

5- The concept of the security perimeter is now obsolete.
You should know that 80% of attacks or vulnerabilities come within companies. 

For this reason, the new cybersecurity paradigm indicates that there is no longer a protection perimeter for sensitive information, as users are constantly accessing, modifying and entering information. 

The key solution is to provide access to the right enterprise assets, to the right users in the right context.

Finally, other benefits of investing in Information Security are that not only protect your data resources, but can also increase business agility, optimize the user experience (one digital identity), reduce costs and improve people’s productivity.