{"id":12487,"date":"2021-08-19T17:53:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/?p=12487"},"modified":"2022-10-06T17:11:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:41:38","slug":"creating-a-cyber-security-roadmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/cloud-services\/creating-a-cyber-security-roadmap\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Cyber security roadmap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
  1. Identifying and monitoring your organisations\u2019 attack surfaces<\/strong> 
     
    One of\u202fthe reasons\u202fwhy cyber security hackers and malware spreaders are so successful is that\u202fthey\u202fexploit the hidden risk arising from complex ecosystems. With organizations today having multiple systems, VMs and infrastructural components located on-premise, on cloud and in diverse geographies, it becomes quiet tough to pinpoint out the attack or risk areas and contain the risk blast within the smallest radius. The risk can be anywhere. It can be a simple misconfiguration or a careless left open port or a legacy software which has not been upgraded. So, spotting the risk in the organisations\u2019 digital portfolio becomes the primary responsibility for Cyber security experts. One of the best methods to do it is to ensure continuous scanning and monitoring of the attack surfaces to visualise the vulnerable points in the IT infrastructure. It helps you identify misconfigurations, vulnerabilities and missing security updates anywhere in your organisation. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
    1. Benchmarking Cyber security performance of your assets<\/strong> <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      You need to set benchmarks for cybersecurity performance of your assets. For benchmarking, you need to set KPIs of Cybersecurity performance. The most common KPIs that you can use include <\/p>\n\n\n\n