Cybersec Awareness Month: Organization Top Security Practices.

It is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and certainly, we wouldn’t let it pass by without extending our little contribution on how organizations and the entire security team onboard are to work in synergy in securing assets and critical infrastructures belonging to their organization.

So, in the spirit of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, here are fourteen (14) security contributions from us at FixitGearWare Security. These security contributions require the CISO, Red Team, Blue Team, and Employees of the organization, to be onboard with all matters regarding data and infrastructure protection and security.

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“Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Empowering Your Team With these Top Cybersecurity Practices”. Image-source: FixitGearWare Security.

 Unveil Top Fourteen (14) Cybersecurity Practices To Ensure Adequate Security:

  1. THE ENTIRE TEAM:

    The entire team of CISO, Red Team, Blue Team, and employees are to learn and keep up to date with modern APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) and cyber breaches.

  2. THE SOC TEAM:

    Your organization should have a good SOC team and centers to efficiently gather and analyze all threats hitting their various infrastructures. 

  3. THE RED TEAM:

    Your organization’s Red Team should be able to replicate these threats in testing your infrastructure and detect possible vulnerabilities that exist. 

  4. THE BLUE TEAM:

    This information (vulnerabilities discovered by the Red Team) should be shared in a timely manner with the defenders’ team (Blue Team). 

  5. THE BLUE TEAM:

    The defenders’ team should implement patches and updates immediately to secure these infrastructural components.

  6. SECURITY PATCHES AND CRITICAL COMPONENTS:

    The key focus of these patches should address critical components with high severity.

  7. UPDATE TESTS:

    These updates and fixes should be tested before releasing them across the entire infrastructure. 

  8. UPDATES UNAVAILABILITY:

    Components with no security updates and patches should be temporarily disabled until a fix is created. 

  9. NOTIFYING ORGANIZATION’S CUSTOMERS:

    If the critical components with no updates are used by external customers, an email correspondence should be sent to these customers. 

  10. SECURING CUSTOMERS’ SENSITIVE INFORMATION:

    Parts of these components affected by update unavailability, which also require sensitive information to be disclosed by the organization’s customers, should be temporarily disabled until the issues are resolved. 

  11. RED TEAM AND RETESTING:

    When these updates are applied, the infrastructure should be retested by the Red Team to ensure these updates addressed the vulnerabilities discovered.

  12. BLUE TEAM AND SOC ANALYST:

    The organization’s defenders’ team (SOC Analyst) should work hand-in-hand with the security update administrator in continuously auditing the infrastructure for any possibilities of compromise.

  13. EMPLOYEES SENSITIZATION:

    The entire organization’s team should be continuously sensitized on the importance of security awareness.

  14. TRAININGS AND PROFESSIONAL EXAMS:

    This sensitization should be conducted through trainings, seminars, article sharing, simulation of cybersecurity attacks, and professional exams to test their knowledge.

At FixitGearWare Security, we are committed to all aspects of Cybersecurity Professionalism, and that includes sharing good information towards contributing to a healthy Cybersecurity Ecosystem. Thanks for the read.

 

 

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