Importance of cyber security in the post-pandemic era: Rupal Shah Hollenbeck
Rupal Shah Hollenbeck, President at Check Point Software Technologies, a leading provider of cyber security solutions to governments and enterprises globally. In an exclusive interview to ET’s Rica Bhattacharyya, Hollenbeck, talks about the increasing importance of cyber security in the post pandemic world that calls for a much closer attention to the user and remote access. She also talks about the greater emphasis on cyber security among top Indian corporations and boardrooms.
Edited excerpts:Q. The way people work has changed post pandemic and many companies have adopted remote working models. How has this led to greater risks of cyber-attacks and what can organisations do about it? The cyber landscape is getting more sophisticated, and the threat landscape has become much bigger than it ever has before.
We're talking not only about increased attacks, but also the sophistication level of these attacks is really changing, and enterprises need to be so much more conversant in cybersecurity. The best way to secure an enterprise is to prevent the attack in the first place. Everything we do, every product, every service we design is with prevention in mind.
The way we work has fundamentally changed, and as people are integrating their work and life a whole lot more, it means the attack surface has grown. The biggest attack vector for cybersecurity today is email, because if you think about phishing attacks. Email is so pervasive, it's everywhere.
We look at it on our phones, our tablet, our work computer, on our personal computers. We have many more threat actors now than before and the way we respond to that is by offering a portfolio of products — that protect the data center, the Cloud, and the people.Q. Is the issue of
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