Facing the Future of Cybersecurity – Insights from Maiky
As cybercrime becomes more professionalized and compliance demands continue to rise, organizations face increasing pressure to protect themselves while navigating complex challenges. In this article, Jeroen Geraerts, VP of Sales at Maiky, shares his insights on how companies can stay ahead with a proactive approach — and why Cybersec Europe is a must-attend event for cybersecurity professionals.
The Most Pressing Challenges Today
Companies are coming to terms with increased requirements for compliance, they are required to meet ever increasing needs for evidence and certification to be able to meet the standards set out by both customers and governments. This is added on top of an already challenging landscape to implement and manage the necessary technologies to protect them from outside attacks. Cybercrime is a true business, with concepts as hacking-as-a-service making it accessible to anyone with malicious intent. There is an enormous need for skilled and competent security professionals, profiles that are scarce and difficult to source.
Addressing Those Challenges
The key to managing this comes from a full circle approach. You have to understand the complexity of different requirements from all stakeholders and manage them in a holistic approach. A true helicopter view of your security program with real-time insights is essential to stay in control of your security system. The security team needs to have the right information available at all times to analyze threats and vulnerabilities and to make the right decisions to mitigate them. This can only be done with the support of automation and tooling, the attack surface has become complex and constantly changing and it has become almost impossible to manage it with a pure human approach.
How Maiky Addresses Cybersecurity Challenges and Opportunities
We start with having a solid risk analysis that defines clear business risks. When you know what to protect, it becomes much easier to determine how you want to protect it. Our risks and risk mitigations are analyzed and managed on a daily basis, this allows us to get ahead instead of fixing after the facts. This approach has allowed our security team to become proactive coaches to their colleagues, constantly steering improvements instead of lecturing them on “what they did wrong”. We really notice the positive effects, it makes our employees feel supported and empowered and it has greatly increased awareness and responsibility.
This is only possible by implementing efficient and effective automation, we can look at real-time dashboards and set automated notifications and risk level modifications so our security team knows what to mitigate before anyone else has a clue.
Why Cybersec Europe Is an Essential Industry Event
As we said before, Cybercrime has become a massive business. These groups operate with a high level of professionalism and are constantly improving their tools and skills. The only way to protect ourselves is to continuously improve as well. That’s why CyberSec Europe is such an important event for us: it’s not just a tradeshow where companies present their solutions, it’s also a place where professionals come together to share their knowledge and experiences. There is a broad spectrum of topics covered by different industry veterans delivering powerful insights on how to manage security in their day-to-day work. We’re really proud to be a part of that and we hope that by sharing our experience that we can make the cyber landscape safer together.
