Overview
As the cyber threats and attacks are rapidly increasing, the market share of cyber security business is growing day by day. Looking lots of space in this area, unexperienced companies also trying their luck to get the business from the organisation’s those does not have the capabilities to assess the unexperienced organisation’s technical and skill capabilities. Do they actually have capabilities in house? or are they keeping your confidential data security, integrity, private information on stake by further outsourcing to freelancers or third party? When you hire Cyber Security outsourcing partners you bound to share the highly confidential information such as Network, IT Systems, Softwares, Data Center, Firewall’s credentials, structure and diagrams which may have the risk of compromise such information in third party hands and that may be turns into worse and existing gaps or vulnerability can be exploited by hackers easily.
How Next Is Now Technologies Helps?
We at Next Is Now Technologies, helps organisations by providing assessment service before hiring the Information Security & Cyber Security Outsourcing partners. We interview their expert’s technical skills, delivered projects, use cases. We also interview and assess technical skills of their end employees who actually going to work on your project and investigate if they have the expertise, capabilities in house to achieve the deliverables or not. Finally we submit the final report basis on our assessment to assure you that your partner is capable or not.
Risks involve, if your partners are not technical capable or not an aggregators?
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Cyberecurity outsourcing risks:-
You lose some control As expected, when you contract work out to external companies or freelancers, you risk losing control of how those tasks are being monitored, performed and handled. But as long as you know and trust who you’ve hired, that shouldn’t be a huge issue, but you’ve got to tread carefully.
There are hidden costs As if they do not have in house capabilities they might charge you high, because such unexperienced partners work as aggregator and if their further freelancers increase cost or they are not capable to deliver project on time they might have to select another freelancers or agency to get your project completed which may lead to have data, private and confidential information leakage and my have risk of increasing cost during the project. Although, cybersecurity outsourcing work is generally considered cheaper, you must also be aware of getting ripped off. Outsourcing companies or big agencies will typically ask small business owners to sign lengthy contractual agreements, and they’ll include plenty of fine print. If you don’t read the terms carefully, you could get hit with unexpected costs.
There are security risks In this age of data protection, it’s essential that you exercise caution whenever using customer data. If you plan to outsource processes that require personal data, you could be placing the privacy of others or security of your business at risk by passing that data on to other people because these data would be at their beck and call. You reduce quality control Outsourcing companies and some freelancers may often be motivated by profit rather than a job well done. That means the work you send out may come back quickly, but will lack the standard and quality that customers have come to expect from your products or services.