Your Program Is a Journey

One thing is clear, building your program is not going to happen fast. In fact, it will take months to years to become more mature if you are just beginning your journey. At the same time, you will never reach a destination with your cybersecurity program. There will always be new tactics and threats that evolve, requiring us to be dynamic and enhance our programs to meet the current state. In Chapter 3, Building Your Roadmap, we provided a lot of detail on how to best prepare for your journey. Everyone’s journey is going to be different, depending on whether you are newly promoted to a cybersecurity leader within the organization or whether you are a new leader coming in from a different organization.

Assess the Current State

As you build your journey, there are three distinct areas you should focus on to better understand the current state that will allow a more successful program to be built and/or matured. The three areas are:

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