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CyberSecurity Essential Guide
Your Business
As the Owner and Leader of your business , building awareness culture of basics cybersecurity and making it part of your operational resilience strategy requires an investment of time and money. Your investment drives actions and activities that build and sustain a culture of cybersecurity.
Have a budget built into the planning year over year is essential. Monitor reports to identify and mitigate risk.
Your Associates & Users
Cybersecurity is everyone's responsibility. Ensuring essential training and testing , will help build awareness. Everyone should adopt a culture of quarterly testing at minimum. Associates often are your first line of defense, this has to be reinforced, one that must have - and continuously grow - the skills to practice and maintain readiness against cybersecurity risks.
Your Systems
Being Vigilant requires you to protect your assets and applications, knowing this Information is the essential of any business; it is often the most valuable of a business’ intangible assets. Know where this information resides, know what applications and networks store and process that information, and build security into and around these. Adopt Zero Trust.
Documenting and updating to track all changes.
Your Infastructure
Assign the right permissions to critical systems, and limit who has access to critical systems. The authority and access you grant employees, managers, and customers into your digital environment should reflect your risk strategy. The digital protection as well as the physical assessment of your environment, conducting periodic assessment to ensure who has access to system, files, and your offices.
Protect Your Data
The most important asset you have is the data you own!
Threat actors, sit and wait silently, sometimes, they will gain access to you system and sit and monitor for weeks, months and sometimes years. . Learn to protect your information, performing regular backups, patching systems, where it is stored, processed, and transmitted. Be proactive and not reactive as a contingency plan. Inventory authorized hardware and software throughout your organization. Know the physical location and user of the hardware to keep patching updates current. This also allows for any unauthorized hardware or software to be identified and removed
Report Incidents
The GOAL is to get back up and running as soon as possible and to limit the exposure and damage.
The strategy for responding to and recovering from compromise: plan, prepare for, and conduct drills for cyberattacks as you would a fire. Make your reaction to cyberattacks and system failures an extension of your other business contingency plans. This requires having established procedures, trained staff, and knowing how - and to whom - to communicate during a crisis.
Backup Your Data & Implement MFA
Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations
Require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for accessing your systems whenever possible. MFA should be required of all users, but start with privileged, administrative and remote access users.
Assess your BYOD and BYOC process and implement VPN
Patch & Update Management
Enable automatic updates whenever possible. Replace unsupported operating systems, applications and hardware. Test and deploy patches quickly.
Remove unsupported or unauthorized hardware and software. Supported hardware and software generally allow you to receive updates and patches for vulnerabilities that otherwise are not available for unauthorized and unsupported assets.