Cyber Security Awareness: Importance of Information Security 

Friday 22nd October, 2021

Traditionally considered as a necessary evil, or worse, as a barrier to corporate growth security strategy must today, more than ever, connect with business priorities and facilitate innovation.. 

Mr. Andrew Kumar, Regional Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone Fiji – Suva said ,"Organizations must eliminate the hierarchical layers between the senior executive and the functional managers, who have historically viewed IS as a technology issue and not a business issue, which create difference by nature of how we handle things – business objective and IS objectives Political and business experts agree that business innovation is key to the return of global economic stability & growth and information security has a critical role to play in the drive toward innovation." 

At the heart of many critical innovations is the secure and fluid exchange of information.

We are an information-centric economy, heavily dependent on the information we create and share; and we find ourselves in an age of digital warfare where that information is put at risk every day.

The goal of our organization must be to enable the business to safely manage risk to gain maximum business advantage.

The need to secure data is driven by an expanding privacy and regulatory environment coupled with an increasingly dangerous world of hackers, insider threats, organized crime, and other groups intent on stealing valuable data.

Over the past few years the security picture has become even more complicated by the rapid expansion of access to the Internet, an unprecedented understanding of technology, increasing economic competition, and the push to achieve greater efficiencies through consolidation and cloud computing.

The Defense-in-depth security architecture delivers a wealth of security enhancements and new features, provides multi-layered security spanning preventive, detective, and administrative controls.

Without the right security strategy, business innovation could be stifled or put the organization at great risk.

To prevent these risks, our organization has come out with a new goal to match risk exposure to risk appetite instead of wiping out all risk.

Having specific expertise in information security is still a crucial part of the program as it is essential for determining the optimum security controls.

This article is first step on the yield of Information security and many more to come!

 Andrew Kumar, RCTO

 Vodafone Fiji Pte, Suva