How to combat cybercrime with Intelligent Automation

Cyberattacks have become one of the biggest challenges for modern businesses. In 2017 alone, one of the largest cyber attacks in history affected more than 141,000 computers globally, caused by the WannaCry ransomware. This incident revealed the vulnerability of many organizations and demonstrated the importance of adopting advanced cybersecurity strategies. Faced with increasingly complex threats, companies need solutions that can quickly adapt to change and improve their defenses. The question remains: How many companies are really prepared for such an attack? How quickly could they react? This is where intelligent automation and RPA technology play a crucial role, helping to protect data, reduce risk and respond with agility to potential attacks.

Jim Noble, a cybersecurity expert who published through The Institute for Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence (IRPA AI), points out that the first problem organizations must face in the face of cybersecurity is keeping up with complexity. In this way, today's companies have three goals to meet:

  1. Cover conventional defenses .

  2. Be able to react in real time to cyberattacks.

  3. Train your staff in the field of cybersecurity measures.

How intelligent automation helps strengthen enterprise cybersecurity

What can organizations do to meet these three objectives in the most efficient, effective and effective way? efficient, effective and effective as possible? The solution is much simpler than you might think: Intelligent Automation. Intelligent Automation through RPA. The Robotic Process Automation helps automate administrative tasks performed by humans, through the use of software robots. It uses rule-based software to perform business process activities in high volume, freeing up human resources to prioritize more complex tasks. Today, companies could combine human labor with digital power to increase and ensure the safety and security of their data. Automated solutions using RPA automation technology can significantly help secure processes.

Five aspects of security risk management that can be controlled from RPA Automation:

  1. Assign roles and profiles: Automating processes using RPA technology involves separating access to data based on the assignment of different roles in an RPA team. This is one of the first requirements of any security scheme.

  2. Monitoring and control of activities: By integrating Microsoft Active Directory when creating profiles and application accesses, it is possible to centralize the team's credentials and provide a unified means of control for credentials, login, and tracking of activities performed by robotic processes. This makes it easier to monitor unusual activities.

  3. Data Encryption: If the data used by RPA tools is encrypted, a secure means for data use is guaranteed.

  4. Zero Contact: The implementation of RPA technology creates the ideal conditions for a zero-contact environment, where humans do not have access to the data that is processed by RPA. By eliminating manual work, automation minimizes safety risks. Because of this, RPA technology ensures work with less risk and reliable data.

  5. Reduce social engineering risks: By eliminating access to information by humans (since robotic processes do the work), the risk of filtering and eliminating malicious requests that arrive through phone lines, emails, etc. to use the information obtained to access restricted information or areas is greatly reduced.

Is RPA technology the best solution against cybercrime?

In the world of cybercrime, attacks are constantly evolving. The forms chosen by cybercriminals are becoming more complex and sophisticated. However, this is no obstacle for Intelligent Automation due to its ability to adapt to change and increase complexity. And that's exactly what's needed in cybersecurity today.

Organizations should be encouraged to choose innovative and more efficient ways to ensure the safeguarding and protection of their data. Cybersecurity and RPA technology are key today.


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