An Enhanced Security Framework for Robotic Process Automation

Robotic process automation (RPA) is an emerging field in any industry that takes care of automation of the monotonous jobs. This can help to optimize the resources utilization for the organization, save the cost, time and improve the accuracy and quality of the jobs performed. However, lack of security in the implementation and the management of these RPAs shall affect the business in an adverse way. In the current scenario, privacy has also taken important role, and allowing bots (RPA) to have an access to these privacy applications can lead to regulatory compliance issues and invite heavy penalty to the company, and at certain times, it may result in business shutdown. Hence, in this paper, we explored various security risks associated with the bots automation and provided a proposal to build a holistic security framework for the RPA environment.