CISA Launches Cybersecurity Essentials for Small Enterprises

Cultivate Your Next Cybersecurity Team Security Magazine November 2017

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has launched Cyber Essentials, an effort to assist small organizations in understanding and addressing cybersecurity risks.

Developed in partnership with small businesses and small state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments, Cyber Essentials aims to equip these organizations with basic steps and resources to improve their cybersecurity resilience.

CISA’s Fall 2019 Cyber Essentials infographic includes a list of six actions organizations can take to reduce cyber risks:

Drive cybersecurity strategy, investment, and culture;
Develop security awareness and vigilance;
Protect critical assets and applications;
Ensure only those who belong on your digital workplace have access;
Make backups and avoid the loss of information critical to operations; and
Limit damage and quicken restoration of normal operations.

CISA encourages small organizations to review CISA’s Cyber Essentials page to learn more about improving their cybersecurity resilience.

ON DEMAND: Business-impacting events such as severe weather, man-made disasters, and supply chain disruption are increasing in frequency and making impacts around the globe.

In today's rapidly evolving security landscape, organizations face an ever-growing array of disruptive events, security threats and risks. Traditional reactive approaches to security intelligence often leave businesses vulnerable and ill-prepared to anticipate and mitigate emerging threats that could impact the safety of their people, facilities or operations.