Policies, Standards, and Processes/Procedures

A major component of your governance function is the need for well-defined policies, standards, processes, and procedures. The policies, standards, processes, and procedures are the rules and guidelines your users must follow as part of working within your organization and it is critical they are being followed. In addition, policies should be reviewed and signed off by your executive leadership team to ensure enforcement for your users. Without this support, it becomes very difficult to enforce and cybersecurity will fail to get the attention it needs at an organizational level.

Hopefully, you have some form of general cybersecurity policy in place today, or, at a minimum, there is cybersecurity language within some of your primary company policies. If not, you must prioritize this today as they are needed to ensure a more secure and robust cybersecurity program. If you do have policies in place today, the reality is they will need...