Network Infrastructure Management | Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Template

What is the best template to use for a cybersecurity risk assessment, for Network Infrastructure Management?

In this video I explain the 8 best practices to protect your company’s data, according to the CIS Framework.

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Mike Smith has been helping companies select the best telecom, WAN, security, and cloud services since 1999. He founded AeroCom in 2003, and has been the recipient of numerous business telecommunications industry awards, including being recognized as one of the top 40 business people in tech-heavy Orange County, CA. Follow Mike on YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit and SpiceWorks.

Transcript

your company, is looking to do a cybersecurity risk assessment. So maybe you’ve just decided it’s time you want to decide what type of risk your company is in in terms of cybersecurity. Or maybe it’s something formal where you decided, Hey, we want to do this every so often. But problem is, is you’re wondering, is there a template out there that you should be following? Well, there is a template out there that you should be following. And in the cybersecurity world, that’s called a framework. So the framework I’m going to do or I’m going to use for this video is called the SES Framework. there’s really a bunch of different, you know, controls within the CSS framework. There’s a bunch of different areas of cybersecurity. So there isn’t one template in particular. There’s several templates depending upon the subject matter that we’re talking about. So today I’m going to cover the template for the network infrastructure management portion of cybersecurity.

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Which category is your company? IG1-IG3

Well, when it comes to network infrastructure management, what is the template for a cyber security risk assessment? What are the different line items that you should be checking on? Well, I’m going to give you those today, but I’m going to categorize them into three different categories. So the first category is something that everybody should be doing, right, is the category of items that every single company should be doing.

The second category is maybe if your data is important to you, like maybe you have a certain level of compliance your company needs to meet, but you’re not quite a major public security risk when it comes to cybersecurity.

Then the third category of line items is going to be things that only companies who pose a major public threat if there’s a cybersecurity breach, should be following.

IG1: Category 1

So the first item is going to be the one item on this list that every single single company should be following, no matter what level of cybersecurity risk you think you’re at. You should be following this item, and it’s making sure that all of your infrastructure is up to date. So what that means is making sure all of your firmware is updated, all of your software is updated, all of your network infrastructure is still fully supported. So that’s number one.

IG2: Categories 2-7

Okay. So numbers two through seven on this list are for companies that maybe have to be a little bit more compliant than just the average company. Like maybe your company has to be hip compliant or maybe you have to be PCI compliant or for some reason you have a little bit more cybersecurity risk there than the average company, but you’re not quite to the level of a public security risk. If there’s if there’s a breach. Okay. So that’s items two through seven on this list.

2.  maintain a secure network architecture.

3.  securely manage your network infrastructure.

4. Item number four, establish and maintain a network diagram

5. centralized network often indication.

6. use of secure network management and communication protocols.

7. Ensure that all remote users are connecting to a VPN and that they’re communicating through a secure triple-A infrastructure locating the last one.

IG3: Category 8

Item number eight. This is only for companies that if they have a cybersecurity breach, it is a public threat. So item number eight, have dedicated computing resources for all administrative work.

Okay. So that is the CIA’s template for network management and infrastructure management for a you know, for evaluating your company and doing a cybersecurity risk template.

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