Cybersecurity must leverage the best of what technologies like cloud, AI and analytics can deliver in order to fend off the worst that cybercriminals will attempt.

1. Cyber Security
Point of View | Cyber Security
Santha Subramoni
Global Head, Cyber
Security Practices, TCS
Tirath Singh
Global Head, Cognitive Threat
Management Services, Cyber
Security, TCS
Authors
Empowers
Business Growth
March 2021

2. KEY TAKEAWAYS
While digital transformation is a focus area for many companies,
cyber security requirements tend to get overlooked
Many cyber security practices are focused on ensuring
compliance instead of mitigating risk
Today’s challenges require a zero-trust approach: ‘never trust,
always verify’
User passwords and VPNs can’t protect enterprise data
The best cyber security solutions are now services, not just software

3. THE PROBLEM
Security lags behind product development and customer
experience, leaving data, critical operations and human lives at risk
Companies lag in adoption of zero-trust cyber security
principles and tools
Technology advances are enabling purpose-driven, resilient and
adaptable enterprises
Yet for many companies, cyber security is still an afterthought

4. THE CHALLENGE
Robots, microservices, automated functions and technologies
The cyber security threat landscape grows increasingly
complex
Partners and third-party suppliers
Employees
Breaches and threats occur from a vast array of vulnerabilities:

5. THE SOLUTION
Companies must implement finer-grained, adaptable cyber security
Passwords
Multi-factor
authentication
VPN
Context –
device,
resources,
access
requested
The digital
ecosystem:
cloud, AI,
automation,
etc.
Software-
based
Services-
based
Managing
permissions
Mitigating
risk
Mainframes,
servers & local-
area networks
Usernames
Roles and
identities
TO
FROM

6. ACHIEVING ‘ZERO TRUST’ CYBER SECURITY
Continuous risk-discovery,
real-time treatment
Never trust. Always verify.
Purpose-driven access
Security as culture
Security by design
Information-centric security
Granular, risk-based and adaptive controls for every
access request

7. THE TCS APPROACH
How to implement adaptable cyber security
Provide scalable and adaptive access
Leverage insight-led intelligence for human and automated
decisions
Keep bad and reckless actors at bay
Design and implement resiliency to ensure business continuity
Enable real-time detection to take immediate action

8. PERCEIVED OBSTACLES TO IMPLEMENTATION
Budget. Innovation.
1. 2.
Objection: “We can’t keep investing in point solutions to address specific cyber risks,
because the risks and costs just keep increasing.”
Response:
Cutting-edge cyber security is consumption-based. With cyber
security-as-a-service, companies can optimize cash flow and gain access
to the latest defenses.
Objection: “Compliance-based cyber security is a brake on our ability to collaborate, innovate
and transform.”
Response:
Modern cyber security practices are adaptable enough to meet the demands
of fast-moving teams and emerging opportunities, because they remove
many of the one-size-fits-all constraints of legacy cyber security solutions.

9. 1. Discover
A thorough assessment is the first step to helping business leaders
understand their readiness for modernizing cyber security
2. Define
Create a roadmap based on discovery outcomes
3. Develop
Allocate some resources to a scrum team to address tactical work to
shore up defenses and implement the most foundational solutions
4. Deliver to scale
Deploy strategic security by expanding work to multifold streams of
scrum teams delivering continuously with accelerated agility
CALL TO ACTION

10. SUMMARY
How modernizing cyber security empowers business growth
Cyber security-as-a-service frees up capital to be spent on strategic
development
Leveraging the digital ecosystem – AI, automation, cloud,
blockchain, etc. – enables the cyber security posture to keep pace
as the business and operating models becomes more digital
A more adaptable cyber security approach makes a business more
resilient, positioning itself to survive new challenges and take
advantage of emerging digital opportunities.

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