What are the most overlooked areas of Cyber Security?

Cyber Security
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The increase in the threat levels due to rising incident of hackings and data theft and the sophisticated nature of the very act has made Cyber Security a top priority for leading organizations. The business leaders realize the importance of data privacy and security and how a failure may land them into hot water. However, even after attaining the popularity in discussion forums as well as priority, many facets of Cyber Security get overlooked, both intentionally and unintentionally, by managers of corporations, big and small alike.
So, what are the most common features that might get a could shoulder in implementation but have a high probability of coming back to haunt the organizations if not tackled properly? Experts of the field have pointed out some areas which might not have gotten the attention in terms of security that they deserve. Some of them are as follows:

  1. Physical Security of Devices:
    The physical security of devices containing strategic information must be checked thoroughly even at the safest workplaces, with important devices being secured in rooms and lockers with only few authorizations to check on.
  2. Printers, fax machines and copiers:
    Many modern devices have an inbuilt memory or internal storage that has the print or fax history and if not configured properly, might fall into wrong hands.
  3. Education of employees in security:
    The stress of work and the very nature of a busy life sometimes takes the toll on the consciousness of the most experienced employees, leave alone the fresh recruits who haven’t have experienced the matters and the seriousness. Employees should be regularly updated with mock drills and security checks to raise awareness about the impending threat that may generate from uncareful practices.
  4. Data inventory and retention policy:
    Companies should be very particular about what kind of data is to be stored where and up to what time, given that there is certain limitations around the same when it comes to dealing with the customer information.
  5. Develop Breach Plans:
    The Companies must come up with a detailed breach plan, which incorporates all the necessary layers in case a data breach happens, with responsibilities attached to dedicated teams on those layers with mechanism sound enough for communication between them.
  6. Restoration and Recovery:
    The companies often don’t prepare a detailed plan focussing on the restoration of the systems that might have been compromised, and the recovery plans that follow them to avoid any type of losses that might occur meanwhile. The plans should also have a legal aspect in their response.
  7. Making Contracts:
    All the parties involved in a contract must have well defined responsibilities with respect to the data that is being shared between them, with necessary steps and penalties that will be in effect in case of any breach or failure of commitments