10 steps formula to keep your organization secure

Hello Friends, 

Now a days running the organization is likely to enter into the battle with infiltrators and protect your state(customers). Here I want to share with you 10 major actions which is really required for any organization to be safe from cyber criminals. These steps are defined commonly for all small scale, medium and large organizations. 

1. Provide training for your employees

Learning is the first step to get any excellence or execution. Provide proper training for all your employees including manager to junior executive for information security practice and policies. If your employees must know which weapon should use for what and how to defend so that he/she would be aware then you may avoid major risks on your organization. 

2. Get informed about your operation

Before you going to fight the battle, you must know strength and weakness of your army. So get fully understand your requirement. Get clear about what to protect and where to concentrate more.  Know your risks, critical conditions, and what you will do if ball is not in your court. 

3. Proper classification and records 

How much soldiers, how much weapons how much knights all matters for commander. You should know all your assets which you have and need to protected. All systems , devices should classified and updated. War is hard to win with rusted spears. 

4. Network security

Protect your wall from the intruders. Implement complete network security using VPN, firewalls and block all unnecessary protocols. Implement network access controls as per process requirement and avoid unnecessary social media usage. 

5. Physical security 

Always implement access control for all your working floors which limits upto authorized people only. CCTV, guards, bio matrix all security parameters should be implemented to secure your working area. 

6.  Clear roles and responsibilities

A horse man may not that much capable to fight with elephant and King should have all the power which he deserves to win the battle.All your executives, managers, accountants, HRs even Top management must have complete knowledge about their individual responsibilities. 

7. Protect your applications

Your product(application), your website, your designs must be secure from any malware and spywares. Use updated enterprise version antivirus and other security applications to keep your applications and all intellectual information safe and secure. 

8.  Develop information security policies

Rules are for everyone. Defined Information security policy can avoid many hurdles during the operations. If there is clearly defined strategy than it will also help in incident management and response in manner to protect all your systems, information and network. Information security policy is the manual for your way to win the battle. 

9.   Destruction is necessity

The one which is created will destroyed one day. Always make sure the documents which are created which containing some sensitive data, that should be always destroyed after usage. Define proper timeline and instructions for data destruction. Use shredders for shredding of paper materials and smash old drives and burn magnetic taps once its not usable. 

10. Back up plan 

If the condition is not in your favor than always you should have plan B for your safety. Make a Business continuity plan for prevent your organization from any unwanted threats either internal or external. Clear roles and actions must be defined for your business back up to from all environmental, technical or operational disasters. 

Hope these tips will work you to keep your work environment strong and secure like a robust empire. 

Share your views and feedback in comment.