Ángel Pablo Avilés: "Users are the weakest link in any cybersecurity programme, but they can also be the best antivirus"



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## Ángel Pablo Avilés: "Users are the weakest link in any cybersecurity programme, but they can also be the best antivirus"

25/11/2019 |
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Ángel Pablo Avilés, director of Computer Security at the company Smart Human Capital, with more than 30 years of experience in this field as an agent of the Guardia Civil and expert in telematic crimes and cybersecurity, has given a lecture on the basic concepts of cybercrime, its prevention and protection at the School of Technology and Experimental Sciences of the Universitat Jaume I.

The director of Computer Security wanted to emphasise that, although the definition of cybersecurity "focuses on the protection of hardware, software and technological infrastructure", the true mission of an expert in digital protection "must be the security of information, especially at the company level. It is the most important asset, it differentiates from the competition and offers identity". Therefore, an efficient protection must "guarantee" the confidentiality, availability and integrity of this information.

In the same sense, another major problem is the investment factor in cybersecurity. "The company allocates its economic resources to salaries, social charges, raw materials or goods, leaving the least investment in cybersecurity," said Avilés, who recalled the importance of investment in digital protection "because, when security fails, the entire continuity of the business dies and the entire infrastructure falls. He also insisted on the need to enhance training and awareness of company staff "so that cybercriminals can not take advantage of human vulnerability. Their attacks use curiosity, innocence, ambition, trust and ignorance of the victim for accessing the company.

After reviewing the main attack vectors of cybercriminals, as well as their most common access doors to information, the various types of malware and the best forms of protection to avoid being infected by them, Avilés explained a real case that he had to face as security director in his company, an attack directed at a large corporate structure "that did not have antivirus because they said it slowed them down" and that spread throughout its global network.

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