Tuesday, October 16, 2018

How To Approach Information Security Risk In Qatar

By Patrick Allen


Identifying, assessing and treating threats found in a company protects the confidentiality, availability and integrity of the assets that it has. Information Security Risk in Qatar goes a long way to managing the threats that are often associated with use of information technology. Once the assets of a company are well protected, the organization is able to achieve a satisfactory risk level.

As much as businesses cannot expect to fully take down a threat, following all the management process can provide workable solutions. To start off, identification of important assets of the company is done. This involves finding out the things that are precious to the entity and if compromised it could have an impact on the confidentiality and integrity of organization processes.

Finding out the weaknesses of some processes within the organization is the next step. This helps determine what deficiencies an entity has and how it can affect the integrity and confidentiality of the company. Identifying the threats that can be a potential cause of compromise to the company. For instance, threats such as social engineering, disclosure of information and passwords, human and natural disasters are examples of threats.

Companies do have control measures set out to protect their precious assets. The controls system in place works by identifying the threats that the company faces and completely fixing the problem or lessening the impact that the hazard will bring. An assessment is also done, which involves a combination of the information collected on vulnerability, assets and threats which will help define the hazard.

To deal with the hazards, treatment procedures are advised. A company can choose to go with mitigation as a treatment this works to reduce the impact that the identified hazard will have on the assets of the company. The other treatment procedure that works differently is remediation which focuses on completely rooting out the problem or nearly fixing it. Depending on the capabilities of a company, either can work.

Transferring the risk found in the entity to another company, also known as transference is an option. This allows the organization to be able to recover from the costs that the problem imparted when it was discovered. This can be done through having an insurance that will provide coverage for any losses incurred when vulnerable systems have been attacked. Transference would be a good substitute for remediation and mitigation.

There may be instances whereby the problem discovered has a low impact or is insignificant. This is where acceptance of the problem comes as a treatment. It involves not fixing the hazard found especially if the money and time spent fixing it would be high. This could be viable if the vulnerability found in a sever contains less sensitive data hence no need to spend time on fixing it.

Avoiding any possibilities of being vulnerable or opportunities for threats to take place is also important. To avoiding the risk of having your sensitive data to be exploited, check on the operating system and whether it can no longer receive security patches from the creator of the operating system. This allows companies to transfer sensitive data to a server that is table and later the non-sensitive data.




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