Us Dept of Commerce Standards and Best Practices for Cybersecurity

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