Security Strategy Planning
Strategy & Governance
A cyber security strategy is a high-level plan for detailing how a business will protect itself from cyber threats during the next three to five years. As such, a good strategy is based on principles of cyber security and focuses on how an organization should allocate resources to align with the business’s cyber security goals. Without a strategy in place, much of what we do is aimless and inefficient. Your strategy should evolve as your organization and the world around you evolve.
4 Steps to building a Cybersecurity Strategy
Understand your Cyber Threat Landscape
- Examine types of threats facing your organization
- Determine which threats affect your organization most often and most severely
- Get up to speed on cyber threat trends (Eg. Rise in ransomware)
Assess your cybersecurity maturity
- Select a cybersecurity frame (Eg. NIST Cybersecurity Framework)
- Determine your organisation’s current level of maturity for all categories and subcategories. (Eg. Policies, governance, security technologies, incident recovery capabilities)
- Use same framework to determine the maturity level goals for next 3-5 years
Determine how to improve your Cyber Security Program
- Determine improvements needed to reach maturity objectives.
- Brainstorm options for achieving the objectives, with pros and cons for each option
- Present options to upper management for review, feedback, and support
Document your cybersecurity strategy
- Write and/or update cybersecurity plans, policies, guidelines, procedures, etc.
- Spell out each person’s responsibility in carrying out the strategy
- Update your cybersecurity awareness and training initiatives
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