What is Cyber Security?
Cyber security is about protecting your information, which is often the most critical and valuable asset a business will own. Cyber security is based on three fundamental goals:
Confidentiality. Any important information you have, such as employee, client or financial records - should be kept confidential. This information should only be accessed by people or systems to that you have given permission.
Integrity. You need to make sure to maintain the integrity of this information and other assets such as software in order to keep everything complete, intact and uncorrupted.
Availability. You should maintain the availability of systems and networks, services and information when required by the business or its clients.
Achieving and maintaining these goals is an ongoing process. Good cyber security involves the following six factors:
1. Determining what assets you need to secure. Essentially, anything of value is managed or owned by your business.
2. Identifying the threats and risks that could affect those assets or your business overall.
3. Identifying what safeguards you should put in place to deal with threats and secure assets.
4. Monitoring your safeguards and assets to prevent or manage security breaches.
5. Responding to cyber security issues as they occur, such as an attempt to break into business systems.
6. Updating and adjusting safeguards as needed in response to changes in assets, threats and risks.
What is a Threat?
The term threat refers to any potential danger to your business, its assets or employees. Threats can be natural, such as fire and flood. They can also be human in origin. In fact, human threats are becoming more common and require a lot of your attention.
The biggest challenge for your business is to define and prioritize assets, threats and the potential risk of those threats.
Then, you have to apply appropriate safeguards. Safeguards are anything you can use to counter threats and reduce risk. These can be anything from software and hardware, to policies and specific procedures for employees, vendors or clients.
In many cases, a safeguard is made up of a combination of these elements.
The rest of this guide provides advice on how your business can set up a sound cyber security process, including identifying threats and risks.
As well as establishing safeguards and putting in place the management structure you will need to keep your protection up to date.
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