Cyber Security Roadmap For Businesses

ESET, the company that develops software solutions that deliver instant, comprehensive protection against evolving computer security threats, has provided security tips for businesses.

Cyber Security A to F

Assess your assets, risks, resources

• Catalog both Digital and Physical assets

• Determine risks in terms of actors, actions, assets, attributes and motives

• List the resources, protect them and review the threats against them

Build your policy

• Organisation needs a high-level commitment to protect the privacy and security of all data handled by the organisation.

• Vendor must have a written policy, approved by its management.

Choose your controls to enforce your policies

• Limit access to specific data to specified individuals by requiring employees to identify and authenticate themselves to the system.

Deploy the controls

• When you roll out a control like unique user IDs and passwords you will need to educate users about why this is happening and how it works

Educate employees, execs, vendors

• Everyone needs to know and understand, what the organisation’s cyber security policies are, how to comply with them through proper use of controls, why compliance is important, the consequences of failure to comply.

Further assess, audit, test

• Once polices and controls are in place and education is under way, it is time to re-assess security, by testing and auditing.