Cybersecurity as the basis for successful automation

One of the most used words in business today is “digitalization”. This is always associated with the concept of digital transformation. These terms refer to the already unstoppable trend that businesses have to transform all their processes into activities that go through digital tools and leave their traces in computer systems. In this way, the processes become more reliable because they can be managed more easily, and speed up or slow down according to the needs of the company.

This trend has increased much more since the changes caused by the coronavirus pandemic, since the need to manage businesses remotely has made managers look for ways to digitize their corporate operations:

In the last two years, digital transformation has taken on a new urgency. As organizations have weathered the disruptions instigated by the pandemic, digitization has become an integral part of their responses and future plans as well. Looking ahead to the year ahead, it is clear that digital technologies will continue to play a critical role in business strategy and success. (enterprisersproject.com)

The benefits of this transformation are gigantic and many companies are already beginning to reap them. However, there are also some associated risks that must be considered, such as the use of solutions that are not correctly adapted to the business strategy or the lack of alignment between the technology implemented and the needs of the clients.

For the rest, perhaps the most important risk that organizations must take into account is computer security, cybersecurity, because by making the activities go through the digital, the possibility of accessing the company’s information is opened. remotely. For this reason, it is not possible to have a good digital transformation if you do not also think that the solutions used must have guarantees of security and data protection.

Automation and cybersecurity

The best way to guarantee security in these cases will be that when digitizing, the very solution that integrates them has all the security guarantees. Cybersecurity in such a fast and changing environment, and especially in which the skills of using technology are increasingly widespread, must improve considerably and adapt to new demands.

 

Today, the most recommended is the use of the blockchain, which can be translated as a chain of blocks, due to the structure that this technology uses to organize and store information. What is blockchain?:

 

A blockchain is a distributed database, which is shared between the nodes of a computer network. Just like any database, a blockchain stores information electronically in a digital format… A key difference between a typical database and a blockchain is the way the data is structured. A blockchain gathers information into groups, known as blocks, that contain sets of information. (investopedia.com)

 

The reason why this way of organizing the information is safer is that since the information has this form of a chain, and each one of the links is related to the rest, it is not possible to try to modify some of that information, or to forcefully enter to the database, without changing the rest of the chain, so by altering the order like this, these unauthorized access attempts are quickly detected and stopped:

Blockchain technology achieves security and trust in several ways… Suppose a hacker, who also runs a node in a blockchain network, wants to disrupt a blockchain and steal crypto from everyone else. If you were to alter your own copy, it would no longer line up with everyone else’s. When everyone else compares their copies to each other, they will see that this copy stands out, and that hacker’s version of the chain will be thrown out as illegitimate. To be successful with such a hack, it would be necessary for the hacker to simultaneously control and alter 51% or more of the copies of the blockchain so that their new copy would become the majority copy and, therefore, the chain. total. (investopedia.com)

So, for reliable automation, it is important to have a technology that stores information in this type of blockchain. Thus, business information is stored and digitized, but it is safe and the organization’s tools can react quickly to block attacks, protect confidential information and know where the most important data risks are.

This reduces the chances of information theft, since such a hack “also requires a huge amount of money and resources, since they would have to redo all the blocks because they would now have different timestamps and codes” (investopedia.com)

The process automation and digitization solution Dexon Business Process Management has precisely this type of security technology. Every time we develop better tools to protect the security of our clients, because we know that the digital world requires special care that is not the traditional forms of cybersecurity. That is why we offer a tool that is up-to-date with the needs of businesses today and in the near and distant future, because we know that the digitization of processes is something that is going to stay for a long time.

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