What Happens During a Cybersecurity Assessment?

When most people think of cybersecurity, they think of anti-virus and firewalls. While that is part of cybersecurity, it is equivalent to thinking of a tire or a windshield when thinking about an automobile. Cybersecurity is the comprehensive ability of an organization to identify, protect, detect, respond and recover from cyberincidents. These cyberincidents have the potential to damage brand integrity through data loss or leakage. Cybersecurity assessments are an important compoent to any greater cybersecurity strategy. This article discusses what happens in a cybersecurity asessment. A Cybersecurity Posture Assessment is standardized process used to define, evaluate, assess and document [...]

Cybersecurity Best Practices

People often tend to think of cybersecurity as only an IT function, such as network security, or like a firewall or having antivirus on a computer.  Cybersecurity is driven at the organization level. It is composed of culture, behavior, goals, priorities and then protections, procedures and verification. Cybersecurity best practices are much more than at the IT level. Cybersecurity starts at the top with the executives and trickle down to management. Management needs to articulate plans to the technical architects, engineers, analysts and tools.  On the executive level, cybersecurity needs to be a business strategy. In the IT ranks, [...]