How We Improved Information Security at Grofers by Avinash Jain

We, at Grofers always keep security first. We believe that information security is as important as any other part of an enterprise and should be considered the utmost priority. So to strengthen the same, we began by having a structured plan to make our infrastructure and applications more secure.

The challenge every startup or even a scaled company faces is to cultivate an InfoSec culture. To facilitate this, we began with a Security Awareness Program. This was a great way to educate personnel and to keep the company’s IT security policy fresh in their minds.It also makes them understand the risks and threats to the ever-evolving cyber world and thus help them to adequately protect the organization against security risks.

To drive the changes we wanted, we started the following initiatives:

Security Awareness Program

We conduct regular security workshops demonstrating the recent hacks, their impacts, mitigation ways and best security practices that need to be followed. Live demos and fixes are shown to keep the team more engaged.

Feedback forms are sent to find out where to improve, what’s missing and steps that could be taken to improve engagement.

To keep the employees aware of what’s currently....

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