GMV y Cisco’s cybersecurity service and solutions are adapted to the new business models and driven by the most groundbreaking technology to provide a secure environment

Hacking has now become a sophisticated multimillionaire business affecting users’ networks worldwide. Organizations nowadays have the continual threat of sophisticated cybernetic attacks hovering over them. At the same time the number of connected devices is continually soaring as cloud services and IoT take off, increasing in turn the potential entry points of these threats. What all this boils down to is that today’s digitalization brings countless advantages to organizations worldwide but also a series of unknown and potentially crippling threats.

Working alongside leading cybersecurity firms enables organizations to cut risks to the minimum. With the aim of raising the awareness of their clients and showcasing the market’s most advanced products, GMV and Cisco organized a business session in Hotel Vincci La Rábida (Seville) with the collaboration of Comstor, Cisco Distributor. The day was kicked off by Miguel Hormigo, Industry Manager of GMV’s Secure e-Solutions sector, followed by Javier Hidalgo, Business Partner of GMV’s Secure e-Solutions sector, who explained the cybersecurity market problems and trends. For his part, Eutimio Fernández, Cisco’s Cybersecurity Sales Leader for Spain and Portugal, ran through Cisco’s range of solutions against these threats, solutions that provide an architecture of complete security, cloud security and other advanced organization-shielding solutions.

During his speech Javier Hidalgo itemized the main cybersecurity threats for industry and told the story of a petrochemical firm that suffered a ransomware attack in a plant control room due to infection of a coffee machine connected to a non-segmented network. This happened back in June 2017 and serves as an object lesion of the need for industry to take cybersecurity measures and the sheer importance of keeping a continual check on all device interconnections.

Among the cybersecurity challenges mentioned at the conference, Hidalgo stressed the recent coming into force of the GDPR, the importance of data as the epicenter of security (against the system storing this data) and the changes in the governance model (CISO and DPO more heavily involved with greater responsibility). He also stressed the need for collaboration vectors and creation of value in the digital transformation and the management of risks for taking on the new challenges of IT and OT integration with the irruption of IIoT, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.