Develop Cyber Hygiene
The National Security Agency (NSA) identified Cyber Hygiene as a substantial priority for any organization, as several of the network and data breaches on record could have been prevented with basic cyber hygiene. According to Forbes, cyber hygiene disciplines occur over three phases – planning, execution and check. These disciplines include, but not limited to, hardening techniques, patching, network segmentation, security of both protocols and authentication credentials. This effort is a continuous process as adversaries are always innovating.