Construction, engineering and infrastructure industries in Southeast Asia are experiencing greater demand because of this of population growth and urbanization. Like many other sectors, the development, engineering and infrastructure industries proceed to be affected by cybercrime. According to management consulting firm Gartner, the variety of attacks on organizations in critical infrastructure sectors has increased dramatically – from lower than 10 in 2013 to almost 400 in 2020.
That’s why BSA | The Software Alliance provides a cybersecurity survival guide for construction, engineering and infrastructure firms in Southeast Asia. This Survival Guide is designed to assist industry leaders recognize and minimize the threats facing their firms, customers, employees and, ultimately, society.
BSA Senior Director Tarun Sawney said no country or organization within the ASEAN region is secure from the specter of rapidly evolving cybercrime. Given their position among the many world’s fastest-growing digital economies, ASEAN member countries have turn out to be prime targets for cyberattacks.
The Survival Guide describes 4 several types of cybercriminals:
1. Unethical competitors: When the stakes are high on large projects, it shouldn’t be unusual for a competitor to hunt a bonus by getting access to confidential data through a cyber breach.
2. Online criminals looking for financial gain: Construction, engineering and infrastructure firms can lose huge amounts of cash from a well-executed phishing attack.
3. Hacktivists: Hacktivists can use cyberattacks to show or discredit your organization’s activities.
4. Malicious Employees: A disgruntled worker who uses his or her access to business or network data to conduct malicious activities, equivalent to stealing confidential information to share with competitors.
The Survival Guide also provides recommendations for leaders on the way to protect firms from cybercrime. Leaders should consider engaging and training staff on the way to stay secure, ensure licensing of all software, follow advice and guidance for IT staff, keep IT equipment up to this point, watch out when connecting to public Wi-Fi hotspots, avoid predictable passwords, use with 2FA for essential clients, cooperation with suppliers and partners.
The e-book titled “Cybersecurity Survival Guide for Construction, Engineering and Infrastructure Enterprises in Southeast Asia” is out there in English, Bahasa and Thai. The e-book will be downloaded without spending a dime [LINK].
Source: e-book “Cybersecurity Survival Guide for Construction, Engineering and Infrastructure Enterprises in Southeast Asia.”
