Restart yes! But in total safety

Finally after the dark period of the early 2020s the restart has begun, energy and investment will be needed to be able to rebuild and revive the country. For some companies brought to their knees by the emergency period, it will not be easy and there will probably be a tendency to disinvest in some areas to favor others. Reducing or disregarding security in IT, however, would be a serious mistake since critical weaknesses in the technology and cybersecurity sectors have emerged during the lockdown. Addressing them will require action on several fronts. Think, for example, of the digital divide, which still characterizes some areas of Italy in 2020, a problem that manifested itself forcefully when the need for teleducation infrastructure was greatest. This is a task that the government will have to solve as soon as possible, just as the Ministry of Innovation will play a key role in the digitization of PA services and the Ministry of Economic Development take charge of the expansion of ultrawideband.

Companies in safety

Instead, it is more critical than ever for private companies to address, without adopting do-it-yourself solutions, the problem of cybersecurity. Consider that the emergence has pushed toward increasingly networked decentralized jobs and services, generating a push that (as industry experts and cyber criminals well know), will not return to what was normal in the pre-covid era. The trends are clear: smart working will continue, at least to some extent,, industrial automation technologies will become increasingly important, and cloud services will be so essential that, according to Gartner, more than 75 percent of medium-to-large companies will have adopted a multi-cloud or hybrid IT strategy by 2021.

Trends in cybercrime

It is no coincidence that since the early 2020s, countless threats and security flaws have surfaced in several key areas of cloud environments, sometimes due to misconfigurations, putting sensitive corporate data at risk, according to a recent Trend Micro survey. Cyber criminals took advantage of these weaknesses by attacking companies with ransomware, cryptomining and data exfiltration. Similarly, a number of targeted attacks against industrial organizations in different geographic areas including Italy have been reported in the last period. The list of targets includes equipment and software vendors for large industries with attacks carried out with various types: from corrupted Office documents made malicious, to scripts acting on server software to make malware detection complicated. While, according to research by the Polytechnic University of Milan, smart factories are an increasingly attractive target for cyber criminals, ready to launch unconventional attacks with the aim of sabotaging plants, stealing industrial secrets or extorting money (e.g., by stopping a plant).

Practical solutions

To act quickly and with expenditures adaptable to business needs, the best solution is to outsource cybersecurity management by turning to specialized and certified companies such as Hypergrid, which offer professional teams that can work on multiple fronts as needed. For example, in the cloud area, the yCloud service is a real boast for Hypergrid, which has obtained AGID (Agency for Digital Italy) certification as a CSP, which allows it to work not only with companies but also to provide Cloud infrastructure to the public administration. While for industrial departments and smart factories, Hypergrid is able to perform code auditing procedures for websites and applications and provide assistance on industrial SCADA software to ensure its operation and assess that no security holes are present. For the indispensable websites for your business, the experts can advise you and provide SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certificates best suited to your needs, not to mention the services we have already mentioned in the past such as the essential verification of the security of computer systems with Vulnerability Assessment procedures.

For advice and information, please feel free to contact us at info@hypergrid.it