Building Your Cyber Security Strategy: A Step-By-Step Guide
A cyber security strategy is fundamental in helping your company take a proactive approach to security instead of reacting to every new threat, which can be time consuming and expensive. Whether you have an outdated strategy in place or you are starting from scratch, you can use this guide to get started building an effective and strategic cyber security plan.
Step 1: Lay the foundation for a sound security strategy.
First, determine what you have to protect.
Gain an understanding of the assets your company has to protect. While you cannot protect everything 100%, you can focus on what you absolutely need to protect first. Start with reviewing your business processes and understanding how revenue is generated by the company as well as what systems would have the ability to disrupt that by being unavailable or having their data stolen. You should also identify the data and other IT assets such as applications, devices, servers, and users that are critical to your business.
Identify what you’re legally required to protect.
While compliance and security aren’t the same thing, most organizations put the responsibility of maintaining compliance or security compliance frameworks on the CISO. Incompliance is costly and damaging to your business. Ensuring you design your strategic cyber security plan with required compliance frameworks in mind while help ensure your plan prioritizes legal requirements.
Understand your company’s risk appetite.
Before you begin developing a cyber security strategy, understand your organization’s risk appetite, or the total risk your organization is prepared (Read more...)
*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Uptycs Blog authored by Harry Hayward. Read the original post at: https://www.uptycs.com/blog/cyber-security-strategy
