Tech Tip: Is It Time for Cybersecurity Planning
By • December 17, 2018 0 457
The time to start planning for a security threat isn’t during a virus outbreak or immediately after you discover funds transferred within your banking accounts. Decisions and judgments made at those moments are typically driven by emotion and not facts. The time to make those cyberthreat plans is now.
Things to consider when you’re planning:
- Physical access to your building(s)
- What to do with lost or stolen mobile devices
- PCI (payment card industry) compliance requirements
- Data-breach incident response
- Threat monitoring
There are great resources out there for businesses that just don’t know where to start with cybersecurity. Take a look at fcc.gov/cyberplanner for a customizable guide to where to get started with operational and organizational planning.
Alan Edwards, CISM, is chief information officer at Computerware, Inc., in Vienna, Virginia.
