From the course: Translating Cybersecurity for SMBs - Using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0

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Set your cyber strategy

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Set your cyber strategy

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- I'd like to kick this session off by taking you back to high school. Do you remember working on those group projects where either one person did all the work for the team or you diligently broke up tasking, but when it came time to bring everything together, the pieces didn't seem to fit together? That's why strong governance is so important in a company. We want to make sure we've learned from those high school struggles and have developed a better strategy for reaching the goals we've set for our business. In the cybersecurity framework, a new function was added to help us address exactly this point. Previously, governance was covered at the category level, but based on community feedback, NIST elevated governance into a function broken down into six categories to highlight how important it is for businesses to have a strong foundation for managing their cyber risk. To start off, you need to set your cyber strategy. To do this, you need to understand the importance of establishing…

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