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SCOPE Virtual Symposium on Cyber Security in era of Work from Home

Nov 30th, 2020 4:58 pm | By | Category: LATEST NEWS, Uncategorized


(THE NEWSMAN OF INDIA.COM)
Taking cognizance of need for robust Cyber security in the ‘New Normal’, Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE) organized a webinar on ‘Cyber Security in era of Work from Home (WFH)’ in association with Deloitte. Shree Parthasarthy, Vishal Jain, Partners, Deloitte India; Atul Sobti, DG, SCOPE; Deepak Agarwal, ED, IOCL; Ashutosh Vasant, Director, RailTel addressed the participants. Nearly 500 participants including Board Members from PSEs attended the webinar through SCOPE’s various platforms.

DG, SCOPE in his address stated that as part of its endeavour to provide the most relevant topics, SCOPE conducted this webinar owing to the pertinence of cyber security issues in the present scenario. He emphasized that organizations need to strengthen their policies and procedures for cyber security needs while implementing WFH in full swing.

Deepak Agarwal addressing the participants said that there was an urgent need to practically implement cyber security in organizations and emphasized on addressing security challenges, building skills of employees and investing in cyber security processes.

Discussing the multifaceted challenges faced by organizations in the present scenario, Deloitte team highlighted that organizations need to adopt resilient-by-design approach to combat cyber attacks. Their presentation highlighted the need to assess remote working ecosystem that enable identification of attackers, their target, technique and entry points for attacks. They also added that by re-evaluating their cyber structure, priorities and governance organizations will be able to transform and excel in the new normal.

Ashutosh Vasant added that in today’s time of digitization of processes, with robust cyber security measures organizations can have an edge over others and succeed.

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