Building Blocks for Your Cybersecurity Program
To provide additional visibility into how your cybersecurity program looks and what is involved, you will need to provide some form of representation of the program. Within this representation, you will want to highlight the specific functions needed to run your cybersecurity program. This can be done in many ways and may differ per organization and different industries you are in, but having this in place helps provide your leadership teams and the broader organization with better insight into how the cybersecurity program is being executed and operates on a day-to-day basis.
As we work through this book, we will follow the premise of ten core functions that I believe every organization will foundationally need as the building blocks for their cybersecurity program. These core functions are:
- Cybersecurity architecture
- Identity and access management
- Cybersecurity operations
- Cybersecurity awareness, training...