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11 Top Cyber Security Best Practices To Prevent A Breach

The document outlines 11 top cyber security best practices to prevent a breach, including conducting cyber security training and awareness for employees, performing risk assessments, ensuring software updates and vulnerability management, using the principle of least privilege, enforcing secure password policies, implementing a business continuity plan, performing periodic security reviews, backing up data, using encryption, designing with security in mind, and implementing strong input validation and secure coding standards.

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11 Top Cyber Security Best Practices To Prevent A Breach

The document outlines 11 top cyber security best practices to prevent a breach, including conducting cyber security training and awareness for employees, performing risk assessments, ensuring software updates and vulnerability management, using the principle of least privilege, enforcing secure password policies, implementing a business continuity plan, performing periodic security reviews, backing up data, using encryption, designing with security in mind, and implementing strong input validation and secure coding standards.

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11 top cyber security best practices to

prevent a breach
1.       Conduct cyber security training and awareness
A strong cyber security strategy would not be successful if the employees are
not educated on topics of cyber security, company policies and incidence
reporting. Even the best technical defenses may fall apart when employees
make unintentional or intentional malicious actions resulting in a costly
security breach. Educating employees and raising awareness of company
policies and security best practices through seminars, classes, online courses
is the best way to reduce negligence and the potential of a security violation.
2.       Perform risk assessments
Organizations should perform a formal risk assessment to identify all valuable
assets and prioritize them based on the impact caused by an asset when its
compromised.  This will help organizations decide how to best spend their
resources on securing each valuable asset.
3.       Ensure vulnerability management and software patch
management/updates
It is crucial for organizational IT teams to perform identification, classification,
remediation, and mitigation of vulnerabilities within all software and networks
that it uses, to reduce threats against their IT systems. Furthermore, security
researchers and attackers identify new vulnerabilities within various software
every now and then which are reported back to the software vendors or
released to the public. These vulnerabilities are often exploited by malware
and cyber attackers. Software vendors periodically release updates which
patch and mitigate these vulnerabilities. Therefore, keeping IT systems up-to-
date helps protect organizational assets.
4.       Use the principle of least privilege
The principle of least privilege dictates that both software and personnel
should be allotted the least amount of permissions necessary to perform their
duties. This helps limits the damage of a successful security breach as user
accounts/software having lower permissions would not be able to impact
valuable assets that require a higher-level set of permissions. Also, two-factor
authentication should be used for all high-level user accounts that have
unrestricted permissions.
5.       Enforce secure password storage and policies
Organizations should enforce the use of strong passwords that adhere to
industry recommended standards for all employees. They should also be
forced to be periodically changed to help protect from compromised
passwords. Furthermore, password storage should follow industry best
practices of using salts and strong hashing algorithms.
6.       Implement a robust business continuity and incidence response
(BC-IR) plan
Having a solid BC-IR plans and policies in place will help an organization
effectively respond to cyber-attacks and security breaches while ensuring
critical business systems remain online.
7.       Perform periodic security reviews
Having all software and networks go through periodic security reviews helps in
identifying security issues early on and in a safe environment. Security
reviews include application and network penetration testing, source code
reviews, architecture design reviews, red team assessments, etc. Once
security vulnerabilities are found, organizations should prioritize and mitigate
them as soon as possible.  
8.       Backup data
Backing up all data periodically will increase redundancy and will make sure
all sensitive data is not lost or comprised after a security breach. Attacks such
as injections and ransomware, compromise the integrity and availability of
data. Backups can help protect in such cases.
9.       Use encryption for data at rest and in transit
All sensitive information should be stored and transferred using strong
encryption algorithms. Encrypting data ensures confidentiality. Effective key
management and rotation policies should also be put in place. All web
applications/software should employ the use of SSL/TLS.
10.   Design software and networks with security in mind
When creating applications, writing software, architecting networks, always
design them with security in place. Bear in mind that the cost of refactoring
software and adding security measures later on is far greater than building in
security from the start. Security designed application help reduce the threats
and ensure that when software/networks fail, they fail safe.
11.   Implement strong input validation and industry standards in secure
coding
Strong input validation is often the first line of defense against various types of
injection attacks. Software and applications are designed to accept user input
which opens it up to attacks and here is where strong input validation helps
filter out malicious input payloads that the application would process.
Furthermore, secure coding standards should be used when writing software
as these helps avoid most of the prevalent vulnerabilities outlined
in OWASP and CVE.

https://www.synopsys.com/glossary/what-is-cyber-security.html

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