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Executive's Cybersecurity Program Handbook

Executive's Cybersecurity Program Handbook

By : Jason Brown
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Executive's Cybersecurity Program Handbook

Executive's Cybersecurity Program Handbook

4.7 (7)
By: Jason Brown

Overview of this book

Ransomware, phishing, and data breaches are major concerns affecting all organizations as a new cyber threat seems to emerge every day, making it paramount to protect the security of your organization and be prepared for potential cyberattacks. This book will ensure that you can build a reliable cybersecurity framework to keep your organization safe from cyberattacks. This Executive’s Cybersecurity Program Handbook explains the importance of executive buy-in, mission, and vision statement of the main pillars of security program (governance, defence, people and innovation). You’ll explore the different types of cybersecurity frameworks, how they differ from one another, and how to pick the right framework to minimize cyber risk. As you advance, you’ll perform an assessment against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which will help you evaluate threats to your organization by identifying both internal and external vulnerabilities. Toward the end, you’ll learn the importance of standard cybersecurity policies, along with concepts of governance, risk, and compliance, and become well-equipped to build an effective incident response team. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a thorough understanding of how to build your security program from scratch as well as the importance of implementing administrative and technical security controls.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Part 1 – Getting Your Program Off the Ground
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Part 2 – Administrative Cybersecurity Controls
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Part 3 – Technical Controls

Summary

We take risks every day. Whether they are human, environmental, or technical, they are risks that we evaluate constantly. When evaluating the risks to an IT resource, the same challenges apply. You must have a structured way to evaluate and respond to risks once they have been identified. In this chapter, you have learned to evaluate these risks using the NIST RMF and apply risk management in various stages from categorizing to monitoring.

As mentioned, once risks are identified, they should be published in a risk register and remediated using the steps defined in a POA&M. An SSP captures all the system components, establishes the scope, identifies the parties involved, and is the document that should be signed off by an executive before a system goes into production. Remember, identified risks and remediation steps should never be deleted from these documents. Once a risk is closed out, it should be marked closed in the status column and never be deleted.

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