Discover how to identify risks with the help of CCM

 The adoption of information security strategies assists companies in the early identification of failures, avoiding or minimizing the impact that data loss can bring. A recent survey indicated that Brazil is the country that suffers the most cyber attacks in general.


Therefore, the importance of making investments in the IT sector, including small and medium sized companies, is undeniable. If you want to learn how to identify risks in your business, read our post and check out the tips below.


What are the main risks to data security?

How important is it to have strategies to identify risks?

With the advent of technology, practically all companies abandoned manual registration and started to adopt systems fed with data from customers, suppliers, employees, billing, among others. Regardless of the size of your business, you produce information that can be deleted or hijacked, for example.

The Information security engineer should work in collaboration with the information security team to offer support to security tools and technologies such as firewall, proxy server, remote access, and others.

Thus, having preventive strategies to ensure information security is a good practice that all companies should invest in. If before it could be seen as something elective, decided internally, it is necessary to be attentive (a) to the advent of the General Data Protection Law, which makes a series of requirements for companies, mainly, in relation to the information security of users.

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