Question

What recommendations can cyber security practitioners adopt in order to introduce a few immediate steps to bring about meaningful change?

Answer 1

Before answering the steps that cybersecurity practitioners should take in order to bring a meaningful change we should aware of who the persons are cybersecurity practitioners.

Who are Cyber Security Practitioners:

Cyber Security Practitioners are the professionals who deal with business risk and what design and operations can be taken in order to avoid any malicious activity such as cyber-attack or hack in an IT industry. Cyber Security Practitioner Certification is a program in which such professionals are taught to deal with such cases.

Steps that can be taken by Cyber Security Practitioner in order to bring about meaningful change :

1. They should train employees from before about various cybersecurity threats and principles and how to cope up with them in the immediate situation.

2. They should install good antiviruses, antispyware, and software from before in order to protect the network from any cyber attack.

3. They should advise firms to use firewalls so that inappropriate data that can cause breach or attack can be stopped from entering inside the company network.

4. All software and hardware used in companies should be updated on a regular basis in order to avoid any cyber attack on the company.

5. Backup of data should be created by companies in order to save their data in case of any breach or corruption. Clouds such as AWS and Azure can be the best option for this.

6. They should train employees of the company for not using any external physical devices in the company systems. This system should also be banned in companies.

7.Wifi and WiMax used in the company should be monitored continuously in order to avoid any cyber-attack because wifi is the first place where attackers keep their eyes.

8. All employees should be given individual accounts so that if any unfamiliar action is taken by any employee in the company it can easily be tracked because company employees can also help attackers.

9. Limited access should be given to employees based on their position in the company. All employees should not be authorized to access data and install software on their machines.

10. Practitioners should guide employees in password policy and should them to keep changing their passwords on a continuous basis

11. Cyber Security Practioner should design a Network Monitoring Tool which will keep monitoring the entire flow of data in the company and will send a notification in case of any unfamiliar action.

12. Practitioners should take continuous sessions in order to let the employees and owners know about the latest malware which can affect the company.