Cybersecurity
What is Cybersecurity?
The practice of protecting systems, networks, and programs from digital attacks that aim to access, change, or destroy sensitive information.
Terms that appear alongside cybersecurity
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as cybersecurity. The number is how many controls name both.
- nist 119 shared controls
- compliance 85 shared controls
- incident response 78 shared controls
- governance 78 shared controls
- cybersecurity framework 75 shared controls
- risk assessment 68 shared controls
- audit 66 shared controls
- cybersecurity risk 65 shared controls
Frameworks that govern cybersecurity
What the standards actually require on cybersecurity
Requirements naming cybersecurity across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Senior management sponsors the development, maintenance and enforcement of cybersecurity policies, visibly endorsing them.
australian-energy-sector-cyber-security-framework-aescsf::PROGRAM-2d · PROGRAM-2d: Senior sponsorship of cybersecurity policies →A management system for cybersecurity in production should be instituted to support the production activities of clause 12, for example IEC 62443-2-1.
iso-sae-21434::RC-05-13 · [RC-05-13] Production cybersecurity management system →The cybersecurity department periodically reviews how the entity implements the cybersecurity controls.
saudi-nca-ecc::1-8-1 · 1-8-1 Periodic review of control implementation by the cybersecurity department →The organizational mission is understood and informs cybersecurity risk management
NIST-CSF-GV.OC-01 · The organizational mission is understood and informs cybersecurity risk management →The designated CII owner must provide an appropriate level of information and cybersecurity awareness and training to all its employees.
ghana-cybersecurity-act::CIID.5.2e · Directive 5.2(e): cybersecurity awareness and training for all employees →CSF 2.0 outcome: systems, hardware, software, services and data are managed throughout their life cycles. Priority Medium. R1: life cycle management of hardware, software, services and systems should take cybersecurity into account, for example secure configur...
nist-sp-800-61-rev-3::ID.AM-08 · ID.AM-08 Life cycle management accounts for cybersecurity and keeps inventories current →Questions people ask about cybersecurity
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