Cybersecurity Strategy: Too Important to Ignore

Cybersecurity and cyber risk should be a prime focus of organizations and governments globally.

Monetary as well as reputational risks are high if organizations don’t have an appropriate cybersecurity strategy -- a high-level plan for how your organization will secure its assets during the next three to five years.

Keep in mind, of course, as technology and cyber threats change unpredictably, organizations will almost certainly be called upon to update a cybersecurity strategy sooner than three years from now.

A cybersecurity strategy isn't meant to be perfect. It’s more like a strongly educated guess as to what you should do. Your strategy should evolve as your organization and the world around you evolve.

The intended outcome of developing and implementing a cybersecurity strategy is that your assets are better secured. This generally involves a shift from a reactive to?proactive security approach, where you're more focused on?preventing cyber-attacks and incidents?than reacting to them after the fact.

But a solid cybersecurity strategy will also better prepare your organization to respond to those incidents that do occur. By preventing minor incidents from becoming major ones, your organization can preserve its reputation and reduce harm to the organization and its employees and stakeholders.

Coming up with an effective cybersecurity strategy isn’t simple, but it’s necessary and could mean the difference between surpassing your competitors and going out of business in the coming years.

Most experts in this area agree that the first and most important step to developing a cybersecurity strategy is to thoroughly examine the?types of?cyber-attacks?that your organization currently faces.

Which types affect your organization the most often and most severely: malware, phishing, insider threats or something else? Have your competitors had major incidents recently, and if so, what types of threats caused them?

Learn much more and receive the invaluable training your company, organization or agency needs to help protect assets and data. Tonex offers nearly three dozen courses in Cybersecurity. This includes several Cybersecurity Training Seminar courses, such as:

--Automotive Cybersecurity Training (3 days)

--Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Training (2 days)

--Network Security Training (2 days)

--Software Security Training (2 days)

--ICS Cybersecurity Training (4 days)

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