With the development occurring in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the different fields parallel with the 2030 vision of the Kingdom, digital transformation is one of the most important basics required to establish different types of business. Information security should go in a parallel way with the digital transformation to save the expanded effort at this huge step. In this blog, we will discuss the importance of information security in companies during digital transformation, and the different tools that can help you do this process.
What is the importance of information security and companies during digital transformation?
As we mentioned before, with the 2030 vision of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, information security is one of the most important steps that have to be taken during digital transformation in companies. But what is the detailed importance of the information security in the digital transformation process:
- Saving customer’s data: all companies from different fields need to protect data of their customers in order to meet the different market requirements, such as enhancing the company's credibility, ensuring its continued presence in the labor market, complying with various labor-related laws and regulations, and avoiding legal liability resulting from failure to maintain the confidentiality of customer data.
- Maintaining the confidentiality of sensitive company data. The digital transformation process involves transferring data to various electronic media, which exposes company data to theft and hacking. This makes information and data security essential to ensuring the confidentiality of company data and thus avoiding losses resulting from data theft.
- Compliance to rules and regulations, as compliance to rules and regulations require saving the information security.
- Avoiding financial losses, data and information leakage associated with digital transformation processes can lead to financial losses. These losses may result from the leakage of sensitive corporate data, customer data leakage, and customer claims for compensation. They may also result from companies being forced to pay fines for failing to maintain the security of corporate data and information.
- Protection from cyber attacks, as digital transformation could increase the risk of repeated cyber attacks resulting from increasing the weak points and the transformation of the different data to the digital form.
- Ensuring the continuity in various types of businesses, as maintaining information security along with digital transformation ensures business continuity without disruption resulting from service interruptions due to cyber attacks and data loss.
- Boosting customer confidence. Digital transformation contributes to increased business for companies and increases the company's ability to accommodate more work. Protecting information and data security also contributes to enhancing customer confidence in the company and increasing confidence in the company's ability to properly maintain data, especially with the acquisition of trust certificates such as security certificates or certificates of excellence.
- Saving the digital infrastructure, as we mentioned before constructing the digital infrastructure requires a high budget differing from company to company, so saving your progress via saving the information security is an important process to save your spent budget.
The most important tools in information security during digital transformation
- Using the different backup tools that can ensure the presence of an additional copy of your data that can maintain the working process correctly during the digital transformation process and during any cyber attack.
- Developing Incident Response Plans (IRPs) to help users recover from incidents in emergency situations.
- Protecting cloud computing by using various cloud computing security tools.
- Using security tools that can suit different systems, like encryption, Multi-Factor Authentication, and Identity and Access Management (IAM).
- Penetration and vulnerability testing, which aims to identify security vulnerabilities in the system and work to resolve them.
- Continuous update of the system, along with updating the security system.
- Continuous security awareness through employee training, training on maintaining the security of security systems, and training on dealing with security vulnerabilities.
What is the importance of information security in companies during digital transformation? In conclusion, digital transformation is a long term process, as it is a continuing process that will persist with your company all over its working period, which raises the importance of information security during digital transformation in its different forms.