Why Adaptive Security is Vital to Reimagining the Workplace

The need for an adaptive security strategy is becoming increasingly apparent, with cybercrime is predicted to cost the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025.

So how can an adaptive security strategy help you avoid the costs incurred by cybercrime?

Here’s how you can apply adaptive security principles to IoT and cloud-based technologies to provide a security strategy focused on preventing breaches and incidents, rather than merely reporting on them.

What is adaptive security?

Today, companies face a broad host of different security challenges - both internal and external security threats and combined physical and digital security threats. Adaptive security is a type of cybersecurity that analyzes data to detect a potential security threat and adapt to threats before they occur.

Adaptive security provides a way for businesses to prevent security incidents, rather than assess and respond to incidents once they have already happened. Adaptive security provides real-time network monitoring to screen for anomalies, vulnerabilities and malicious traffic.

Implementing an adaptive security strategy is vital to help businesses to keep up with the changing and ever-growing demands of the modern security sphere.

How to implement an adaptive security strategy

Here we will discuss some of the technologies and tools that you can implement in your workplace to apply adaptive security procedures.

1. Access control technologies

Access control is a cloud-based solution that provides real-time data concerning building access. A commercial door access control system uses mobile credentials as access keys that allow employees to enter the premises. With Bluetooth-enabled readers, your employees can access the building without removing their mobile devices from their pockets or bags for added convenience.

Access control provides invaluable security data that can help to protect the physical and digital assets stored inside your office building. Access technology is cloud-based, which means it requires cybersecurity software to protect it from interception. If the system is intercepted, malicious parties may gain access to its remote capabilities. You can implement adaptive cybersecurity to prevent interference with your physical security system.

The data gathered from access control technologies can be analyzed using adaptive security principles to prevent unauthorized access incidents. Anomalies, vulnerabilities and incidents of attempted access can be quickly identified using data analytics, triggering alerts that will notify your security personnel and allow them to respond promptly and effectively to the potential threat.

Adaptive security principles applied to access control technology can allow you to prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to your building quickly and effectively.

2. Internal door locks

You can fit internal door locks in your building to ensure a zero-trust security policy. Since companies are vulnerable to both external and internal security threats, trust should not be assumed for employees and visitors.

Internal door locks can ensure that visitors and employees only receive permissions to access relevant facilities in your building, ensuring that sensitive assets and information remain protected from internal threats.

You can apply analytics and adaptive security principles to internal door locks in addition to building entry access control to identify anomalies and abnormalities in internal access data. This will help inform your security staff of internal security threats before an event occurs.

3. Security cameras

Security cameras are mainly used to deter crime or provide evidence after a crime has occurred. However, applying analytics and adaptive security principles to security cameras can optimize them to help your security team address a threat before an incident occurs.

Since your security team will not consistently monitor the video camera feed, analytics allow alerts to be triggered when a potential security threat is identified. Security staff will be unable to monitor camera feed constantly due to other tasks in their workload, and they may not be able to view all footage simultaneously if you have a large site with a large number of cameras. The alerts from data analytics enable your security team to respond quickly to prevent a breach from occurring.

With an integrated video camera and access control system, alerts can be triggered when access credentials are misappropriated to unrecognized individuals. Since misappropriated access credentials is one of the larger concerns with access control, adaptive security principles can help to remove this vulnerability from your security strategy.

Merging digital and physical security - Considering the ‘phygital’

Merging physical and digital security is becoming crucial with the increased adoption of IoT and cloud-based technologies. All IoT and cloud-based physical security technologies can be protected using adaptive cybersecurity, enforcing counter-attacks and triggering alerts for potential threats.

Merging your physical and digital security teams will help you implement adaptive security alongside physical security systems to support both teams address and respond to alerts more efficiently.

Final thoughts

Adaptive security is key to avoiding the costs incurred by a security or data breach. Physical security systems are necessary to protect data and assets stored in your buildings, and you can apply adaptive security principles to these devices to ensure that they work better to prevent security incidents.