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Taking a Holistic Approach to Cybersecurity

Abu SadeqFounder & CEO

Zartech

Nov 10, 2017

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About me

• Currently Founder & CEO of Zartech – a cybersecurity products and advisory services company

• Also work as ‘Fractional CISO’ for several companies

• Over 20+ years in the technology space within diverse industries

• Creator of Cyberator - a best-of-breed

cybersecurity assessment tool

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Who invented the Internet?

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The Birthplace of Internet

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Room 3420 at the University of California, Los Angeles’s Boetler

Hall.

Back in 1969 the Advanced Research Projects Agency

Network (ARPANET) which developed the network that

became the basis for the Internet.

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The Internet Today

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- Google has indexed over 50 billion webpages

- 3.8 Billion Internet users in June 30, 2017

- 2.8 Billion active social media users

- 8.4 Billion Connected "Things" in Use and expected to be >25 Billion by 2020

- 1.6 Billion users purchasing via e-commerce

- Digital data stored in the cloud is 16.1 zettabytes

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HACKED!

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80M records/$100M+33M Records/$850M+

76M households/$1B+

1B records/$350M

40M records/$252M+

412M records

145M Records/$200M+56M records/$80M+

3K records/$35M

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We need a holistic approach

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Start by taking a 360 view of your security program

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NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)

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Protect

Detect

Respond

Recover Identify

Identify: What's the organization's

understanding to managing cybersecurity risk to systems, assets, data, and capabilities

Protect: What appropriate

safeguards have been developed and implemented to ensure delivery of critical infrastructure services

Detect: What appropriate activities

have been developed and implemented to identify the occurrence of a cybersecurity event

Respond: What appropriate activities

have been develop and implemented to take action regarding a detected

cybersecurity event

Recover: What appropriate activities

have been developed and implemented to maintain plans for resilience and to restore

any capabilities or services that were impaired due to a cybersecurity event

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Why NIST CSF?

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Purpose of the NIST CSF

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Function: Identify

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What's the organization's understanding to managing cybersecurity risk to systems, assets, data, and capabilities?

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Function: Protect

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What appropriate safeguards have been developed and implemented to ensure delivery of critical infrastructure services?

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Function: Detect

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What appropriate activities have been developed and implemented to identify the occurrence of a cybersecurity event?

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Function: Respond

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What appropriate activities have been develop and implemented to take action regarding a detected cybersecurity event?

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Function: Recover

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What appropriate activities have been developed and implemented to maintain plans for resilience and to restore any capabilities or services that were impaired due to a cybersecurity event?

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A number of studies show that implementation of these seven Controls provides an effective defense against the most common cyber attacks (~90% of attacks).

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7 controls for effective defense

#1. Implementing a formal information security

governance approach

#2. Inventory of Authorized & Unauthorized Devices

#3. Inventory of Authorized & Unauthorized Software

#4. Secure Configurations for Hardware & Software on Mobile Devices, Laptops, Workstations, & Servers

#5. Continuous Vulnerability Assessment & Remediation

#6. Controlled Use of Administrative Privileges

#7. User Education & Awareness

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Thank you