Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday, January 2nd, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
Happy New Year to all of you.
My tradition since the podcast began is to start the first episode of the year with New Year’s Resolutions for IT and security leaders. Because you should resolve to do things more efficiently, more methodically and more strategically than last year. You need a cybersecurity plan.
I’m speaking to those of you in small and medium-sized businesses with fewer financial and human resources than large organizations.
You may not know where to start. So here’s some advice: Start at the end. Assume there’s been a breach of your security controls five minutes from now. Are you prepared?
Why start there? Because the beginning steps — which I’ll get to shortly — will take time. And time is what you don’t have if there’s a cyber incident. You need an incident response team, and an incident response plan.
First, the incident response plan has to be written, with several copies stored in a safe and accessible place for the incident response team. Why not on computer? Because the computer with…
