Author of the best-selling book, Next Level Cybersecurity, Sai Huda is founder and CEO of CyberCatch, an AI-enabled cybersecurity compliance solution provider.
Business information security is both a technical and strategic issue. One will need to align information security strategy with business goals to ensure coherence.
A good place to start is by evaluating the current information security infrastructure. A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis will help identify what needs to be acted on to enhance business security environment. Also, to ensure information security measures are compliant with relevant standards and regulations.
Another proactive step is to perform an incident response test and simulate a cyber attack involving a ransomware and data exfiltration attack to test ability to respond. According to Sai Huda, this cyber drill will identify gaps, weaknesses and blind spots, so risk mitigation action can be taken proactively, and many organizations have not either performed a cyber drill or performed an adequately planned real-world simulation.
