The importance of Information Security in our lives – Part 1

Societies, including the Peruvian one, are adopting digital solutions not only at an enterprise level, but also in the personal. From the enterprise point of view, there are different digital solutions that when adopted not only become part of the available technology in the enterprise, but also they could be part of the specific niche’s regulatory requirement. This will require the enterprise to send periodic specific KPI (Key Performance Indicators) reports, which should be aligned with specific incident report times, especially when these are associated with service availability and information security.

In the personal case, there are a plethora of available of digital solutions, from food deliver, e-commerce, online banking, and a long etcetera. Due to the nature of the diverse application, it is necessary to register personal information (e.g.: names, last names, birth date, ID documents, etc.), payment methods (credit cards, debit cards, etc.), and other in our accounts. This fact of the account creations and personal data registration creates a trust relationship with the service provider, for which our data will reside in their data bases. These companies, as mentioned before, could be under regulatory requirements in their respective business niches, but this doesn’t mean they are 100% secure.

To better understand the different threats our data could suffer, I prepared a series of entries to share and hopefully, will create a Little of awareness about how to protect our date through simple processes. These are divided in seven parts y an additional one for conclusions.

1. In our home

We all Heard of information viruses and how they can damage our computers, and/or how these could infect our computers, keep silent for a long period of time and extract specific information from our bank accounts, social media, email, etc. In this case information security, represented by an antivirus and updated Operative System (OS), could serve as a preventive measure against these types of attacks. 

In addition to the above, we should keep in mind that our digital identity has to be secured, in that sense; we should learn how to identify potentially malicious or illegal websites that are used to steal our identity and payment methods. 

See you in the second part.