Minimum Security Controls for Organizations To Protect Themselves Against Cyber Attacks-

While looking at cyber security trends across the globe, it's dynamic in nature. And the reason for this is technology is changing in a rapid way. So the question for medium and small organizations even in some cases for large organizations too, is what bare minimum security controls should be in place to secure their organization :

• Security Governance (Senior Management + Risk Management team, Compliance & Regulations PCI, HIPPA, SOX, GDPR, etc )
• Access Management Controls (to control the admin and privilege access rights)
• Provisioning of Protective and Detective Technologies (Firewall, Endpoints, IPD, IDS, Honeypots, Vulnerability management, etc.)
• Using Encryption technologies ( For data in transit, rest)
• Security awareness among the employees, vendors, contracts everyone who deals with the organization data and assets. Training to the cyber security teams on the technologies that are deployed in the organization.
• Conduct periodic cyber security assessments to check the effectiveness of the security controls.
• Training to the cyber security teams on the technologies that are deployed in the organization.

At the last I could say, security is the niche skillset so it's the responsibility of the management to have the right set of people to get things done in a smarter way. And yes, its a niche skillset so IAM person can perform IAM job perfectly and firewall person can perform well in the firewall only. So pls don't look at the cost of the employees' or consultants' salaries or fees as if the data breach happened at the organization's level then that cost will be always on the higher side.

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