Companies can look at setting up special advisory committee or crisis management team comprising of executive and board members aligned with the Information Technology Amendment Act, 2008
These are unprecedented times in which both companies, people, businesses, and governments are still navigating their way around this Covid-19 pandemic. But it is through these times of chaos that criminals exploit those who drop the guard.
As countries across the world are fighting to contain the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), cyber threats seem to have taken this as an opportunity to use potential vulnerabilities and the widespread panic to further their malicious intent.
The US Department of Health and Human Services was reportedly hit with a cyberattack Sunday night, Bloomberg first reported, but there's no evidence the hackers were successful.
Companies must accept that the battle to protect enterprise data is now a permanent feature of the business landscape. Organisations have to be on constant alert to evolving threats, and the actions outlined in this article should form the basic building blocks of corporate data protection.
It is the responsibility of businesses to create cybersecurity cultures that keep employees informed of risks and teach them strategies to stay one step ahead of hackers, but that consciously avoid placing employees at the center of prevention itself.
RBI has told Supreme court that WhatsApp is not compliant with data localisation norms and has directed NPCI to stop full-scale launch of WhatsApp Pay in India
