With growing ecosystem of startup
around the globe brings in major threat to their innovations too. Many startups
often start from living room or college canteen. Many successful startups in India
indicated that few like minded innovators joins hand with strength in different
domain and start the development work to showcase the proof of concept. Proof of concept with viable
business case is very important to get the seed funding.
In the event of self funding or
through seed funding, startup generally hire the first line of employee through
reference without going through the background check.There comes the threat of human
vulnerability which is maximum in the information security domain.
We generally trust our resources
and treat them as family to inflict conviction and confidence within the team
member but sometimes some of the resources turns hostile and hurt the company.
It is very important for startup
to implement network security but the usages of basic email server to common
hosting server works for the worst. As startup founders invest their life
savings to effort in order to achieve the goal and it is important for all of
us to implement human intelligence as first line of defense to mitigate any
security breach which may cost us unavoidable failure.
Many resources complain that they
are not allowed to attend phone calls, whatsapp or any other messaging
application within office. Some of them complain that they are not allowed to
leave the office during office hours or they are not allowed to carry laptop
back home.
I do understand the concern of
the resources and they suffer just because of few resources who is not ethical
while performing their duties.
It's unfortunate that some of the
resources intentionally or unintentionally share company information with
friends or relatives or XYZ, which may lead to leaking of confidential
information about product, potential business etc.
When it comes to security we talk
of routers to switch to IPS/IPS, DDoS, penetration testing to Vulnerability
Assessment but it does not work in startup ecosystem.
If one wants to secure the
innovation till it’s released in the market, it is utmost important the founder
should keep an eye on everyone based on multiple intelligence mechanism.
