Associated with ABES, ARMIS intensified its operations in Brazil, where it opened an office to directly serve its clients. The strategy is to expand the penetration of its solutions and services in the Brazilian market and expand its presence to others in South America. The group brings together several companies with a diversified portfolio to serve clients in various business verticals: Finance and Insurance, Public Sector, Transport, Telecommunications, Education, Industry, Sport and Health. The ABES Portal interviewed Horácio Ferreira, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), at ARMIS to talk about the group's plans and cybersecurity, one of the arms of the business.
Horácio Ferreira, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), at ARMIS
- How long has Armis been in Brazil?
ARMIS has been in Brazil physically for about 10 years. But even before that, the company was already developing projects in Brazilian territory. As our activities expanded, the need arose for our office in loco, with Brazilian experts. Today, our portfolio includes large clients from different areas of the industry.
- In which other Latin American countries is the company present?
ARMIS operates in Brazil in multinational organizations and has partnerships in Argentina, for example. Our goal for 2022 is precisely to expand our operations in other countries even more vigorously. We are moving towards this, as we want to help organizations on this path towards digitalization.
- What is the commercial structure of ARMIS in Brazil?
We currently have our own internal team. Our specialists in the field work directly with clients and potential clients, establishing productive relationships between different stakeholders.
- What are Armis' goals in Latin America and especially in Brazil?
Our goal is to transform reality through technology. We are a group of companies dedicated to different areas of activity such as Finance and Insurance, Public Sector, Transport, Telecommunications, Education, Industry, Sports and Health, following the purpose of making life easier for organizations and the professionals who work in them.
In addition, we seek to strengthen our customers' infrastructure, both in terms of cybersecurity and in terms of their operations, wherever we are.
In Brazilian organizations, cybersecurity has been highlighted in relation to the demand for services and consultancy. Faced with a scenario of growing concern around the topic, ARMIS stands as a partner for services in the area that align digital transformation with security and a good user experience.
Therefore, much more than continuing to expand its operations in South American territory, ARMIS hopes to remodel its customers' businesses through technology, focusing on cybersecurity, innovation and high performance.
- What solution does the company offer in the cybersecurity market and its differentials?
ARMIS supports cybersecurity in an integrated way. We are dedicated to developing ambitious solutions and focus our efforts on the latest technologies. With more than 17 years of know-how and expertise in this area, we provide Identity and Access Management, Software Testing and Certification, Pentesting, among other proposals related to the cybersecurity area.
ARMIS' differential is to place the clients' goals as our own, understanding the reality in which they operate and demystifying the idea that cybersecurity requires long processes, bureaucracy and long waits.
In our solutions, we look for easy deployment and quick user adaptation, so that collaboration between teams is easier. With security strategies adapted to each organization, it is possible to empower teams and facilitate data sharing, safely.
We work on identity and access management for large companies, which have a complex organizational architecture and therefore need to have these automated systems and at the same time maintain high cybersecurity performance.
On the other hand, we are also present in smaller organizations, but which already understand that digital transformation is urgent and that organizational data are extremely important assets for those who want to maintain their operations in the long term. We understand that whatever the complexity of a company, preventing fraud and cyberattacks must be understood as an investment and not as an expense.
- How can companies improve their cybersecurity policies and practices?
In addition to building robust systems, which rely on physical and cybernetic variables, we believe that strengthening an organizational culture focused on cybersecurity is essential for its maintenance.
We can say that companies can improve their cybersecurity policies and practices by using technologies to protect devices such as, for example, passwordless authentication (security processes without requiring passwords) and multi-factor authentication. The cybernetic part of profile and access management is also essential, which is basically the control of access to your organization's networks, allowing or not certain access to folders, files, documents, etc.
From the perspective of the culture focused on cybersecurity, it is possible to use internal training, work on internal communication and always teach new employees about the risks we have to the company's security in emails, suspicious websites, etc. Organizations must help their employees to identify and depict suspicious activity in the sense of cybersecurity.
At ARMIS we work with “Zero Trust” approaches, which in practice means putting the organization on alert for possible intrusion attempts. Cybersecurity must be understood not as an expense, but as an investment in asset protection.
- Why is the number of cases of data leaks growing? How to reduce it?
We live in the information age and, with that, our data are considered as goods. This digitization of society has activated a kind of “cyber war” between people and organizations trying to protect their data, and on the other side, we have malicious individuals trying to defraud it for some benefit.
As the level of robustness of technology increases so that this data is more protected, those responsible for fraudulent behavior also increase their technical and strategic level to be able to carry out their actions in bad faith.
To reduce this, it is necessary that organizations are always aware of what is most innovative in terms of security and that they constantly update, inform and make their teams aware of cybersecurity, increasingly reinforcing the subject in order to build an organizational culture. that is digitized and at the same time able to prevent cyberattacks.
ABOUT ARMIS
ARMIS is a multinational, which seeks to transform business through technology, formed by a group of 5 companies. Its differential is the segmentation by area in which it operates. Much more than the know-how in technology, ARMIS wants to highlight the know-how in the businesses that make up its portfolio. The companies are:
ARMIS Information Technology: focused on cybersecurity, information technologies and collaboration and productivity tools.
ARMIS Financial Technology: focused on the end-to-end digital transformation of the financial sector.
ARMIS Digital Sport: works with solutions aimed at sports digitalization.
ARMIS Intelligent Transport Systems: ARMIS group company focused on smart mobility and the future of cities.
OZONE: of the ARMIS Group, Ozono is considered a “technological partner” of organizations, through its operational services and cloud solutions.
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