Us Dept of Commerce Standards and Best Practices for Cybersecurity
Carter Welch
The US Department of Commerce recently identified Best Practices for cybersecurity. Linked MSP follows this 5 Part process.
1. Identify
- Identify and control who has access to your biz information
- Conduct background checks
- Require individual user accounts for each employees
- Create policies and procedures for information security
2. Protect
- Limit employee access to data and information
- Install surge protectors and uninterruptible power supplies (UPS)
- Patch your operating systems and applications
- Install and activate software and hardware firewalls on all your biz networks
- Secure your wireless access point and networks
- Set up web and email filters
- Use encryption for sensitives business information
- Dispose of old computers and media safely
Train your employees
3. Detect
- Install and update anti-virus, -spyware, and other -malware programs
- Maintain and monitor logs
4. Respond
- Develop a plan for disasters and information security incidents
5. Recover
- Make full backups of important business data/information
- Make incremental backups of important business data/information
- Consider cyber insurance
- Make improvements to processes/procedures/technologies