Advanced IT solutions support an organization’s efficiency and are often a key element of its competitive advantage. This is especially needed when high business scalability is required.
Our insurance client works with partners from various industries – banks, financial institutions, automotive companies, telecommunications operators, retail chains and e-commerce companies, which then sell insurance products to their customers. This requires adequate IT support – a challenge for developers, who must provide solutions that meet the needs of the business – primarily in the form of appropriate logic, graphical interfaces for partners and insured parties, or communication interfaces for exchanging data with external systems.
Each of the points of contact between the application and the “outside world" is at the same time a possible point of breach of the security of information processed in the applications – in the form of a cyberattack or even a user error. The effects of such incidents can vary, but in any case they would be harmful: incorrect or inconsistent data entered into the database, data leakage or unauthorized deletion – these are just a few examples of potential risks. Possible consequences of such incidents include temporary suspension of business operations, exposure to legal liability (e.g., GDPR, KNF (Financial Supervision Authority) guidelines) or contractual liability, financial and reputational losses for the organization.
Effective mechanisms to mitigate cybersecurity risks always need to be multi-level – from appropriate policies and procedures through good practices in the development of secure applications to infrastructure protection (including Web Application Firewall). A full set of these solutions is used by the client, and All for One’s task was to independently verify, through intrusive penetration testing, whether the organizational and technical measures taken were sufficient.