Technology Planning: Manage Cybersecurity Risk
The Process of Creating a Proactive Data Security Strategy.
The constantly evolving threat landscape makes it increasingly challenging to defend your data and network against cyberattacks. To protect against costly breaches, you need a holistic and proactive cybersecurity strategy to bolster your defenses and mitigate risk.
3 Key Phases for Managing Your Cybersecurity Risk
PHASE 1
Prevention & Protection
Start by implementing a multilayered approach to keep your data and networks secure.
- Identify your current vulnerabilities by conducting a gap analysis, penetration testing and other relevant assessments.
- Adopt a zero trust philosophy that requires every user and device to prove identity and authorization.
- Evaluate how effectively you’re using existing security technologies.
- Determine which additional compensating controls and strategies you need to improve visibility and strengthen your overall security and risk program.
- Educate your employees about how to recognize threats so they can adopt a security-first mindset.
- Recognize that risk assessment and security are a journey, not a destination.
PHASE 2
Detection & Response
Develop a comprehensive plan for quickly detecting and containing a breach to minimize its impact.
- Properly segment your network to limit unauthorized intruders’ ability to move freely and also improve mean time to respond.
- Enhance processes that focus on continuous monitoring to improve the detection of anomalies and events.
- Implement content security solutions to quarantine and inspect suspicious activity, integrate data loss prevention and detect forged email.
- Fortify security controls for users, devices, applications and networks.
- Ensure you have the ability to consistently monitor your environment by implementing proper log management best practices.
- Create and document a detailed incident response plan and perform tabletop exercises to improve breach simulation and game-day scenarios.
PHASE 3
Recovery
Ensure you have a strategy for keeping your business up and running post-attack.
- Focus on building resilience into your environment vs. complete safety.
- Develop and test a disaster recovery and remediation process that addresses your organization’s risk profile.
- Review and strengthen your current backup strategy for your critical services and systems that are frequently targets of specific ransomware attacks.
- Consider augmenting your cybersecurity and risk strategy with cyber insurance.
- Ensure that proper policy and procedure documentation is current in order to maintain a chain of custody for data forensics purposes.
- Consider augmenting in-house resources with experienced partners to improve your incident response teams.
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