CISOs have become an important role undoubtedly

Nityanand Shetty
CEO, Essen Vision Software

Preparedness to face challenges of data security:  
The last year has been a year of unlearning a lot of our traditional ways of the data protection strategy. Covid-19 opened up a completely new normal and a new set of challenges organisations now face as compared to a year back. We had to add some different technologies and tools built on Zero trust in our arsenal to provide customers with the confidence that even in the current situation and what we face in the near future EssenVision can provide them with the right data security practises and keep them unharmed from the breaches and attacks we have seen in the recent times.

The best practices adopted for remote working: 
We adopted the Cloud a long while ago for our emailing platform, however the usage of the entire platform of O365 with Teams, One drive & Sharepoint online was done very effectively by the entire team in the last 1 year for internal and external communications, internal data storage & client meetings. We believe as a company providing these platforms to our employees we are now fully geared to working remotely without teams in this New Normal.

Role of CISOs: 
Earlier the compliances that were followed within the 4 walls of an organisation premises could not be applicable for employees working from home. Apart from the infrastructural and logistical challenges, Security Issues were paramount for an organisation. The CISO definitely has become an important role and an important resource in the strategy of setting up an Infrastructure in the new working environment as his inputs in protecting and security organisation data was key and an important aspect of this new environment.