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5 Steps to Design Your Cybersecurity Strategy

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Success is not operating incident-free but learning from them.

Make the most of the first 90 days on your job. Leveraging a Next-gen SIEM or XDR solution can help you with a proactive security posture. Here are steps to design your cybersecurity strategy.

Here are steps to design your cybersecurity strategy:

Step 1 | Gather Information

  • Audit your assets to f ind what is critical for the business
  • Understand what you are legally required to protect

Step 2 | Understand what you are legally required to protect

  • Analyze the types of threats targeting your industry
  • Understand the techniques and motivations of potential attackers
  • Align your organization with use case support

Step 3 | Define goals and design your strategy

  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the current security measures
  • Start a timeline for your plan with measurable milestones

Step 4 | Establish capabilities and desired outcomes

  • Define behaviors, risks, timelines, and successful outcomes
  • Extend your SOC by including IT in security protocols

Step 5 | Design your Extend your SOC by including IT in security protocols incident response (IR) plan

  • Ensure the right people know what to do, and when to do it
  • Design plans to remediate an attack if an incident becomes a breach
  • Establish a mechanism for continuous improvement