June 8th 2021
The webinar “Information Technology Security in Business” was conducted with the initiatives of Dr. Nazmona as the lecturer for Information Technology in Business course (SBSD 1063). The speaker of this webinar was Mr Syamsul Faizal Ahim the Account Director, Education Cisco Systems (M) Sdn Bhd.
Mr. Syamsul explains the background of Cisco Sdn Bhd. He also explained that in Malaysia, Cisco cooperated with many institutions including universities such as UTM. Before the pandemic, people that use online conferencing platforms such as Cisco were not common, but due to the pandemic the use of online conferencing platforms have increased rapidly.
There are a lot of multimedias that Mr. Syamsul shows while sharing his knowledge. He shared not only powerpoint slides, but also pictures and videos. The online conferencing platforms are very popular in the pandemic because people are advised to not meet in-person. As a company that runs in the technology field, there are a few threats for Cisco such as hacker and malware infections.
To help improve the Information Technology Security for a company, the company should have Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Virtual Private Network, Cloud-Edge Security, Advanced Endpoint Security, and Secure web collaboration tools. The company could also beware of the malware infections that could come from anywhere, have backup for critical systems, training their employees of attack/phishing simulation, and improve their technology including architectural approach for end to end security, endpoint detection and response, and malware detection solution.
For conclusion, Mr. Syamsul emphasized that good cyber security will be costly but bad security will cost more. It was a great session and I have a lot of new insights of information technology security. This webinar has made me know the importance of cyber security especially for business. We often want to save our budget by cutting things we thought unnecessary but information technology is not one of them.