WHAT INNOVATION MEANS TO DIGITAL SECURITY

WHAT INNOVATION MEANS TO DIGITAL SECURITY 

 

by Lionel Phang Leaders Speak

To be innovative in the digital security realm, you need to be able to predict the future. It requires a passion for safety and security to provide true technology which enhances safety with information exchange.

The only way this can be done is via collaboration with major network vendors like Cisco. Through collaborating and communicating with these vendors, we all understand the future developments that will be incorporated in networks and prepare for the security needs these developments will unveil.

When I look at my own family, my children have some of their access to the internet restricted. There are a lot of bad things on the internet and they need to be protected from them. However, if the constraints are too limiting, I also place them at a disadvantage in future life as there are many things they can learn and friends they can make with the abilities of a digital world.

Work and life are melding together and employers need to understand the benefits and risks this produces. With employees using their digital devices for personal as well as business use, they become exposed to the full complexity of risks that the digital world offers. At the same time, while employees are working longer hours thanks to the flexibility of technology, they are also opening their networks to all external risks.

The problem is that with the broad range of personal and commercial information collected these days, hackers are going to gain access to some of it via spyware. They won't let you know they are doing it and companies don't want to let anyone know it has been done on their network. Vulnerabilities will always happen to a certain degree, and this creates problems when this information is used for illegal purposes.

This brings me to my original point. The only solution for innovation in digital security is to have a passion for eradicating security problems. Everyone needs to be educated that there are problems and bad things within our digital world, just as there are in the natural world. If we all work together collecting information to provide solutions that minimise the impact of these security risks, then there will be more potential to benefit from what our digital world has to offer into the future.

- Lionel Phang, Vice President APAC Region, Trend Micro

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