5 Things Customized Security Protects at Automotive Companies

Protecting your business is important, that’s not news. However, what “important” now defines certainly is. That’s because modern assets go beyond what’s in stock – it extends to the digital and electronic world.

As an automotive company, you don’t just have parts or vehicles in storage, you also have valuable data like customer info on deck. It’s critical to your business success to shield it from danger. Doing so requires a customized security plan, and gives you a host of benefits. What kind? We’ll list a few right here.

Custom Data Protection

Having a general firewall or system to protect your data is all well and good, but not sufficient in today’s environment. That’s why customized security takes the exact needs of your business and fine tunes them.

Maybe you have a BYOD policy but only want to allow specific hardware and MAC addresses on the network; that’s an area customized security can help with. Having a plan unique to your company, works far better than a one size fits all plan.

Electronic Backups

Depending on the means, a custom security plan will have ways to backup important data. Electronic files, ranging from account information to consumer data, are safer when placed in the confines of cloud storage or external servers. This brings us to our next point. . .

Backup Disaster Recovery

Customized security not only prevents loss of crucial files, but also gets a business back on its feet following disaster. What kind? Power outages, physical damage, storms, malware, or anything else are all real possibilities and pose significant risk to your automotive company.

However, a BDR means you have not only steps in place to return to functionality, but also the means to shield sensitive data from loss.

Improved Visibility

Customized security allows management and IT to see who has access to what, either on the network or at the business level.

This gives great insight about the sensitivity of information and what parties have access, along with catching unusual activity – incoming or out. It lets you gauge weaker points of your current security profile and allows for improvement. Best of all, its unique to your business alone.

Greater Scalability

Lastly, a customized security plan allows for better scalability. In other words, you can increase or reduce assets related to protecting critical information.

If said information needs to comply with regulation standards, customized security allows for that. If you need to create network segregation to accompany a BYOD plan, customized security can do that too.

Customized security enables you protect your costs and speed of resource allocation, where flat security plans are too slow to the punch to deliver.

It’s hard to suggest anything not a custom security plan, especially with IT. Your business will always have unique demands and resources. Thus, it deserves a plan which not only protects assets, but works within the abilities of the business.

If you haven’t considered a custom security approach, either through company or third party organization, now’s the time to do so.  Stratosphere Networks is a leading provider in IT security.  Give us a call at (877)599-3999 or fill out a contact form to talk to an IT professional about how to best protect your business.