The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) recently announced its latest “Strategic Approach to Countering Cybercrime.”
Here are the program’s pillars:
- Apply tech tools to disrupt criminal activity
- Develop policies and laws to enable prevention and prosecution of cybercrimes
- Facilitate compliance with those preventative policies
- Hold criminal actors accountable to those cyber statutes
- Promote cybersecurity through public education
We encourage leaders of small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) to adopt a similar approach to cyber-vigilance:
- Make cybersecurity a priority for your business and provision funding for this imperative
- Cultivate a culture of cyber-resilience that anticipates risks, deflects assaults and improves progressively
- Review and adjust cybersecure policies and procedures on a regular basis in response to the evolving technology landscape
- Foster compliance with those policies and practices through awareness and training programs
- Engage the support of a skilled managed services provider (MSP)
How can your company translate this cybersecurity plan into action? Initiate this basic, continual process:
- Proactively study the breadth of the threat landscape
- Establish your organization’s definition of good security in terms of operational and financial risk tolerance
- Identify appropriate triggers for changing security measures, adapting tech tools and refining IT practices
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