Determining Why SOC Services is important for your business

 Having the correct SOC Services Provider will help you in enhancing your business's cyberseurity posture and also providing real-time insights on various cybersecurity threats.

 

Why Should You Not Take Business Continuity Casually?

Let’s Start With Basics – What is Business Continuity?

The term – ‘Business Continuity’ is quite expressive, meaning the ability to continue the business should have even after something disrupting or destroying has happened. The capability to recover and sustain vital operations during, and also after a disaster happens is the definition of business continuity in the simplest terms. The planning of business continuity involves establishing the processes of risk management and methods meant to avoid disturbances in mission-critical operations. Also, it consists of managing the re-establishment of the organisation’s services in full-fledge as soon and smooth as possible.

In general terms, the culture of the organisation also plays a vital role in business continuity. You ask how? Well, let me explain.

On a broader scale, ‘culture’ is what we call the attitude and behaviour which people reflect on a day-to-day basis habitually. So, in specific terms, this business continuity culture means the full commitment of the people to mould and enhance business procedures and strategies. This way, everyone in the organisation together strives to attain a single goal, i.e., resilience, which finally contributes to the success of the company.

So, if you have to develop a business continuity culture in your organisation and want every person to follow it, then you will have to mention it in the terms for them so they can align with those. You can build an effective business continuity method by relating it with what your company actually sells.

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Know the difference between SAP HANA and SAP S/4 HANA

It is estimated that almost 70% of the money exchanged through global transactions touches an SAP system. Each and every business is unique due to its procedures and functions and business heads are aware that an ERP system like SAP can integrate both and accomplish the desired outcome. SAP and its modules cover almost all the features of business management and there are some folks who are unclear about what each module or product can do for a business. The majority of people today are still confused between SAP HANA and SAP S/4 HANA as they are unclear about their capabilities. It is common within the non-technical group of people to wrestle while understanding the differences and basic concepts of various SAP solutions. So this article is especially for those groups that wish to gain basic knowledge about these two products by SAP.

What is SAP HANA?

SAP HANA is usually described as the backbone that typically runs the SAP landscape. SAP HANA is the in-memory database technology and an innovative column-oriented Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) which is used to save, collect and analyze data of integrated business activities. SAP HANA IS better than other RDBMSs because it is built with a much simpler structure and has a lower memory footprint. Enterprises run various modules on SAP HANA such as finance, HR, logistics, etc. based on their business requirements. SAP HANA can do real-time analysis and crunch data nearly instantly which allows businesses to make quick business decisions even in changing situations for significant benefit.

Abilities of SAP HANA

Database Administration

Analytics and Data Processing

Data Security

Application Development Tools

Data Integration and Replication And more…

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Top-4 Cybersecurity Threats Faced by Small Businesses And How You Can Prevent It

Be it a small business or an enterprise, cybersecurity threats possess the same amount of risk. There is a common myth that exists that a small business can’t become a potential target of any cybersecurity; however, this is not the case.

With an increasing number of automated cyberattacks rising every day, it has allowed small businesses to serve as soft-targets. When compared to larger enterprises, small businesses are low on resources and often don’t tend to invest quite extensively on security technologies. Due to the lack of dedicated and stringent cybersecurity measures, it makes them an easier target of cybercriminals.

A cyberattack can result in a damaged image for such business and its post-effects can be quite devastating. An online report states that a small business with an employee cap less than 500, tend to lose around $2.5 million after every cyberattack. Losing out such a huge amount of money can be financially demotivating for any small business. Keeping in mind all these reasons, small businesses must make sure that they’re aware of these threats and how they can stop them in the initial stages. 

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WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT BROKEN AUTHENTICATION AND SESSION BREACH?

As we are covering OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities,broken authentication is one of it. Broken Authentication itself suggests the breach in the authentication procedure of a web application. Session management is the rule which checks for the interactions amid a web application and end-users. A web session is actually a transactional chain of HTTP commands and responses made by the client to a server. HTTP/HTTPS is the protocol to communicate between the website and the browser.

So, in broken authentication, hackers find the exposures where the breach could be done to dodge or seize the authentication functions.

Following are the ways where the authentication breach could happen –

• Probable login credentials.
• Exposed session IDs in the URL (e.g., URL rewriting).
• Vulnerable session IDs to fixation attacks.
• Unprotected user authentication credentials.
• Session IDs, passwords, and other identifications sent over unprotected and unencrypted connections.
• Non-rotated or Unshuffled session IDs after successful login.
• Undestroyed or not invalidated session values after logout.

Such attacks aim to get access to more than one account and gain all the privileges of the user which is attacked. These privileges let the attacker do whatever he wants.

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How to Protect Your Organization’s Online Presence from Phishing Scams

The dawn of digital transformation has taken the internet by storm with the growing number and sophistication of phishing scams. Long back in 1996, phishing scams involved fooling people through messages pretending to be the authentic source. People those days fell prey to such scams and shared their account details and billing information. Though the strategies have become outdated today and we believe we can’t be fooled with such techniques, Phishing remains as popular as ever. 

Over the years, Phishing has transformed drastically from simple messaging to spooky emails. There is no end to the rising number of phishing scams through emails with fake IDs, driving to the malicious website that appears to be similar to the one it is imitating. The hackers are sneaking into your email conversations with previously compromised email accounts, replying to your mail threads with malicious links or attachments trying to acquire confidential information of your company.

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With time the threat actors are turning out to be more precisewith their target audience. Spear Phishing targets known individuals to lure them, observing their online activities and imitating the websites they are accessing. Whaling is more precise, which targets executives at higher positions. Both techniques involve a huge amount of research and observation to entice the targets to open the fraudulent emails. There is a thin line of difference between Spear Phishing and Whaling. Spear Phishing is used to target an individual while Whaling targets an organization’s top level executives. Scammers popularly use whaling to acquire the organization’s valuable information which comprises of trade secrets and passwords credentials to administrative company accounts.

Though the digital era demands the use of advanced technologies like IoT, AI, Cloud Computing; security becomes a major concern here. In the present scenario, while we all are working in the extended perimeters of our homes, no one wants to fall prey to phishing scams.

Let’s have a look at the preventive measures to be taken to secure your organization’s online presence from phishing scams.

1.       Build a Cybersecurity Awareness Training Program:

The organizations Cyber security is as strong as the weakest employee of the company. A security breach is likely to occur due to human negligence rather than cyber-attack. Conduct Cyber security awareness training program and educate your employees about the phishing trends and tactics to spot them. The training session will ensure use of approved software and strong passwords in the organization. Enlighten the employees on the Cyber security strategies and multi-factor authentication to protect the business data from top 10 OWASP vulnerabilities.

2.       Install an Anti-Phishing Toolbar:

According to experts, 97% of Internet consumers within an organization fail to identify sophisticated phishing emails. Deploying anti-phishing tool is a comprehensive anti-phishing solution that delivers detailed information of the website you are browsing on the internet preventing such scams. The toolbar secures your business information with routine checks of the visited sites comparing them with the known phishing sites in their database.

While browsing through the internet, if the user accidentally lands to a malicious site, the toolbar sets an alert.

These toolbars are offered by most of the popular browsers with no extra cost. To secure your organization’s confidential information, the decision makers should install the anti-phishing toolbar to keep a track of your website security. It verifies the email content, attached files, and other information securing your online presence from web spoofing or phishing.

ESDSVTMScan is a vulnerability scanning tool regularly notifying you of the security lapse, thus Securing your organization from a security breach. 

1.       Use Web Application Firewalls:

The web application firewalls act as a barrier to phishing scams. Most of the organizations use Web Application Firewall as a defense tool between their business website and the internet traffic, safeguarding the online presence against malicious intruders. The internet traffic consists of malicious requests which might be spoofed emails, messages, requests from fraudulent websites. So, deploying a WAF secures your online presence from these Cyber security attacks and malicious actors.

This indispensable part of the web application security strategy identifies and patches the vulnerabilities in applications and servers, blocking malicious actors from finding these loopholes. ESDS eNlight WAF is a specially engineered intelligent Cloud Hosted Web Application Firewall that protects your web applications from threats/attacks. Protect your online presence against these spoofed requests with ESDS eNlight WAF.

1.       Detect Potential Threats with AI and ML:

With sophistication of cyber threats, Cyber security is also evolving at a rapid pace. AI and ML can analyze the user behavior and proactively detect the threats thus assisting your organization in Cyber security war. The advanced technology solutions like AI and ML trace the anomalies and warning signals for phishing throughout the email. AI examines the email message based on the context comparing it with previous phishing scams.

2.       Endpoint Monitoring and Protection:

No doubt at workplace employees tends to make use of their personal devices. The rising use of these devices introduces a number of fresh endpoints which need to be protected under IT security system. At workplace there are certain devices with compromised security, monitoring and protecting them becomes a crucial task. Monitor such endpoints and offer remediation for compromised devices to prevent the explosion of attack through these unmanaged devices.

Wrap Up

The dawn of the digital era has taken the internet by storm with the rising number of Internet consumers and sophistication of phishing scams. The scammers are innovating unique strategies to sneak into your email conversation and India ranks 3^rd after Canada and the United States for Phishing scams. The above-mentioned techniques will help you secure online presence of your organization from Phishing Scams.

Companies like ESDS – The Digital Transformation Catalyst are finding new ways to defend your online presence with the help of advanced technological solutions to fight against the sophisticated scammers. ESDS eNlight WAF, ESDS eNlight WebVPN, and VTMScan are the Made in India security tools to guard your online presence.

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Are you aware of all types of online scams prevalent nowadays?

The general rule of thumb when working on the Internet is If you feel suspicious about any email at all, do not open it, and for sure don’t open any link provided inside it. 

Online phishing scams have been around a while and as we turn more towards Digital Technology for almost everything. Right from social interaction to banking and shopping online, Identity and banking information thefts are running rampant. 

The problem seems to be growing even more like a lot of our personal information is publicly available on Social media channels and other data collecting websites. 

The problem is only growing, as more personal information is now publicly available on social media channels and websites, and hackers can easily craft personalized phishing attacks for their preys and be very convincing and easily bypass many Security systems. In recent years we have also witnessed an increase in bank fraud cases where using stolen identities, and Aadhaar information scammers have stolen money from individual bank accounts. 

Kaspersky Lab a cybersecurity firm investigated the Dark Web Market and found out that personal data of any person, their complete digital life is worth even less than $50 nearly just Rs 3500. 

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India’s #1 Cloud Hosting Service Provider Company | ESDS

Racing towards a digital first-economy, ‘Digital India’ has turned out to be the roadmap to the Digital Transformation of our nation. Bridging the digital divide, the government of India is encouraging the adoption of sophisticated digital technologies to transform the country into a trillion-dollar knowledge economy. For a country like India with a billion population, the technology that collects, integrates, and distributes crucial data seamlessly is in demand.

Technologies grounded by analytics, mobility, the Internet of Things, and the most important of all the cloud technology are forming the stepping stones of digital initiatives and are expected to bring a deep societal transformation. The rising adoption of cloud services in India will ensure on-demand and smart-citizen centric services, transforming the business world into a hotbed of innovations.

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SAP S/4 HANA – Empowering Manufacturers Driving Digital Transformation

The dawn of Digital Transformation accelerated the adoption of cloud hosting and advanced technologies like IoT, AI, ML, Blockchain, etc. across the Indian industries. These technological inventions are transforming our hyper-connected world in a huge information system where business value is no longer driven by traditional assets. India is the second-largest online market across the world with over 560 million internet consumers. The digital disruption across industries is driving new business models, ways of working, collaborating, and communicating for business purposes. While the cloud service providers in India are gaining popularity at a rapid pace, industries across the nation are incorporating cloud solutions to ensure business continuity and mark the beginning of their Digital Transformation Journey. 

Challenges Faced by the Manufacturing Sector in the Digital Era

The rising customer demands, enhanced customer nature and dynamically changing market are playing key role to transform the manufacturing industry. The next generation customers are demanding products to be tailored depending on the specific needs and are expecting the products to be delivered with highest quality and competitive prices. This becomes quite difficult with traditional manufacturing assets and processes.

In this digital era, the manufacturing organizations with absence of digital core are facing challenges like insufficient Planning and Out-of-Stock Issues, lack of production updates and quality control, lack of proactive approach to eliminate risks, no real-time information, lack of customer centric insights, etc. Also, the possibility of human errors is high. So, it is the need of this era to go digital and enhance business.

Why Do Manufacturing Organizations Need SAP S/4 HANA

Over the years SAP HANA has been the ERP system for manufacturing organizations. Designed to ensure efficient and smooth business operations, SAP S/4 HANA has become the driving force for digital transformation in the manufacturing companies. This intelligent next-generation business suite delivers a simplified IT landscape and an expandable platform for business innovations. SAP S/4 HANA offers end-to-end digital enterprise architecture enabling you to take the lead in the digital economy by digitalizing all manufacturing processes. 

SAP S/4 HANA is a one stop solution delivering automated and optimized manufacturing outcome. 

Let’s dive in deep to know how SAP S/4 HANA is empowering manufacturers driving the digital transformation journey:

1.     Deriving Insights from Data: 

SAP S/4 HANA was designed to address the challenges of data proliferation, integration, insight, and innovation ensuring the digital transformation for a manufacturing organization. It delivers insights from the data collected by connected devices to derive innovation and create business value. It combines all analytical capabilities like planning, predictive analytics, and business intelligence (BI) delivering a one-stop solution under the SaaS model to the manufacturers. It empowers the manufacturing organizations with real-timecontextual information, analysis for better planning and decision making.

2.     Quality Management:

SAP Quality Management module being the key element of SAP ERP offers a fully integrated purchasing and inventory management process. It inspects the material received against the purchase order and the inspection IoT module is automatically triggered incase material is flagged for quality check. This intelligent module performs a quality check of the product in the warehouse which can be a raw material or a finished product.

SAP delivers the reports to the quality management team depicting the material defects and the number of times the defects have been detected. It ensures simplified spotting of vendors who frequently fail the quality check or inspection process of the goods delivered. Also, the customer defect report gives detailed information on defects in outbound deliveries. Thus, SAP ensures customer satisfaction and exuberant customer service with improved quality of products.

3.     Ensure Healthy and Safe Environment:  

SAP S/4 HANA reduces risks with its proactive approach to analyze and plan a healthy and safe environment. The intelligent business suit monitors industrial hygiene preventing exposure to chemicals and workplace hazards. It has an inbuilt learning module that learns from incidents and identifies issues and resolves them. It gains insight into the safety issues ensuring better preventive measures and reducing the severity of the incident. 

4.     Manufacturing Execution: 

SAP HANA Manufacturing Execution module was designed to manage operations of a shop floor in a manufacturing organization. Leveraging the SAP technology and deriving insights from real-time information, the module monitors and configures the ongoing activities. The module integrates the SAP components with the equipment of a manufacturing environment. It delivers transparency of operational tasks ensuring effective decisions and appropriate workflow sequence. It is a scalable manufacturing business solution delivering optimized plant performance and profitability.

5.     Constraint-Based Production Planning:

The SAP S/4HANA enables improved speed and responsiveness of production planning, connecting the advanced planning process to manufacturing execution. It is capable of delivering exuberant customer service by enhancing real-time visibility into capacity and responding at a lightning speed to the new demand.  It uses predictive requirement planning to manage mid and long term demand scenarios.

Wrap UP

Digital Transformation has become the key to success in the business world and cloud solutions are playing a vital role to automate business processes and ensure business continuity. SAP S/4 HANA is no longer just an ERP system for manufacturing organizations but, has turned out to be the driving force for digital transformation. SAP S/4 HANA has digitized the manufacturing processes transforming the sector to be more collaborative, localized, automated, integrated, and highly adaptive.

There is a wide range of cloud hosting companies in India like ESDS – The Digital Transformation Catalyst offering SAP S/4 HANA to automate your business processes.  

For further queries, you can connect to us on: getintouch@esds.co.in| 1800 209 3006

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