A step-by-step guide
Every company, large and small, should actually have a strategy around "Cybersecurity". Because no matter how well you think you are protected, a (cyber) attack is in a small corner. And let's not beat around the bush, companies without a strategy or who have not thought about this subject, find it hard to recover after such an attack. In this blog, you will read what a cybersecurity strategy is and how to develop an effective one yourself.
This strategy is often devised by your chief information security officer (CISO), with the aim of ensuring business continuity in a world full of cyber attacks. Your strategy describes (if correctly) how you minimise risk, secure your digital assets and how you recover quickly if you are hit by a cyber-attack.
Phrased a little more simply, it is a roadmap of your defences, which the organisation's key stakeholders use and should be updated regularly.
Creating a cybersecurity strategy takes time, but gives you many benefits. For example:
Nowadays, it is not a question of 'if' but 'when' you are attacked online. When this happens, you want to be operational again quickly.
Do you have a good backup? Because it minimises the risk of losing data in the event of a cyber attack.
Laws such as the AVG require you as a company to ensure the security of personal and sensitive data.
Your competitors who have already suffered a cyber-attack have seen customers leave for competitors. This, of course, is something you want to prevent.
Below are the steps you can take to build an effective strategy.
The first step is to take a good inventory. How are you doing and what are the risks? This includes both external and internal threats; be it malware, phishing attacks, ransomware, etc.
Next, find out how far along your company is in terms of cybersecurity. You can use the NIST model for this.
Once your assessment is complete, you can put everything in order. What tools and software are you using, is it all up-to-date? And have you installed good securitysoftware?
If everyone is behind your plan, you can start documenting the strategy. Plans, policies and procedures - right down to establishing who is responsible for what and when. Everyone in your organisation needs to understand and support the strategy.
A key part of any effective cybersecurity strategy is making sure everyone is constantly trained on the types of cyber threats. So that they know what they should and should not do as soon as they face them.
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