Attack prevention methods
Preventing cyberattacks starts with understanding access controls. Traditionally, there are three categories of access controls:
- Technical: Software and hardware that help prevent cyberattacks. This could be software as simple as implementing password protection for sensitive controls and data to more advanced techniques such as implementing firewalls.
- Administrative: Things such as policies and procedures that are not technology-based but help prevent cyberattacks. Administrative controls can be company policies such as preventing shared user accounts or requiring mandatory cybersecurity training for operators.
- Physical: As the name suggests, physical controls are security measures such as fencing, security guards, access cards, and so on.
Depending on what you’re working on, you may only need technical or a combination of administrative and technical controls. Physical controls are only necessary when the project is critical...
