Cyber Security Made Easy
The First Step to securing your environment is Developing a Good Roadmap
A Security Improvement Program will help define a clear route towards maturing your strategy to allow for a process of continual improvement.
01. Build Understanding of the current cyber risk landscape
Understanding the largest risks businesses face in the current risk landscape is the first step in securing your environment. You can accomplish this with currated monthly cyber security training.
06. Monitor and Improve your cyber security landscape
Once you have completed your initial evaluation its time to operationalize your cyber security plan. Operationalizing your roadmap, can include Quarterly external vulnerability scans, monitoring your newly implemented systems (patching, IDS), maintaining your dependency maps, or any other recuring procedure you developed in your initial development of your roadmap.
05. Contingency Planning
Even in the most secure environments, there is always the chance of having your system exploited with zero-day exploits. Having clearly documented plans, on what you will do if your systems are exploited are essential to limiting downtime and calculating the amount of time it will take you to recover from an attack. These metrics are also essential to have for your cyber coverage.
02. Identify Vulnerabilities
Ignorance isn't bliss when it comes to your companies cyber risk. Completing a full vulnerability assessment, policy and practice review can give you a way to understand the gaps in your current cyber security eco-system.
03. Determine Risk
Once you identify the flaws in your environment, it is time to evaluate the risk of each vulnerability and policy. Each vulnerability has a "risk" score that gives an idea of how easy it is to exploit a vulnerability and how damaging it can be. Other risks might not be a vulnerability, but a missing control. The risk of not having 2FA on certain systems not only leaves you more vulnerable to attacks, but can disqualify you from certain cyber polices.
04. Remediate Risks
Remediating risks can be a complex procedure. Understanding how your systems interact and developing implementation plan for each remediation effort is essential to ensuring you do not cause business interruption during the remediation process. This can be especially true when using legacy systems.
The Cyber Security Checklist
Can your organization check all of the boxes?
Intrusion Detection
Employee Education
Email Security
2FA
Defined Roadmap
Backup Replication