Modern Cybersecurity Strategies for Enterprises

Preface

Overview of Information Security and Cybersecurity

• Objectives
• Information security principles
• Additional/supporting principles
• Information security policies
• Cybersecurity - overview
• Difference between information security and cybersecurity
• Common threats in the market
• Importance of cybersecurity
• Need of the hour and problem statement
• Cybersecurity strategy and its importance
• Strategy components
• Conclusion
• Questions

Aligning Security With Business Objectives and Defining CISO Role

• Objectives
• Today’s challenges for the CISO
• Aligning security with business objectives
• Return on Investment (RoI) in cybersecurity
• Role understanding for the modern security leaders
• Effective communication - from CISO to business
• Cybersecurity roadmap
• Conclusion
• Questions

Next-generation Perimeter Solutions

• Objectives
• Overview and concept understanding
• Next-generation firewall (NGFW) solution - the first line of defense to your realm
• Critical components of Next-generation Perimeter solution
• Deep packet inspection (DPI)
• Web Proxy and Secure web gateway (SWG)
• Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• Zero-day attack protection
• Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
• DoS and DDoS protection
• DNS security
• Onboarding, adoption, and maturity path
• Leading players in this domain
• Conclusion
• Questions

Next-generation Endpoint Security

• Objectives
• Overview and concept understanding
• Endpoint protection types and modules
• Traditional solution vs. modern technologies
• Guidelines to choose the right solution for your business
• Maturity path for endpoint security
• Maturity level
• Leading players in this domain
• Conclusion

Security Incident Response (IR) Methodology

• Objectives
• Overview and concept understanding
• Basic principles
• Types of security incidents
• Importance and key considerations while developing IR plan
• IR methodology
• Building blocks of IRP
• Adoption of the MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Appropriate placeholders for MITRE ATT&CK
• Tools and resources for the MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Security incident - handling
• Eradication and recovery
• Incident handling checklist and recommendations
• Conclusion
• Questions

Cloud Security and Identity Management

• Objectives
• Overview and concept understanding
• Shared responsibility in cloud
• Cyber hygiene and importance
• Cloud security architecture (CSA)
• Cloud security framework (CSF)
• Leading frameworks for cloud
• Building blocks of a cloud security architecture and compliance framework
• Maturity model for cloud security
• Best practices for cloud security
• Overview of Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Technologies under IAM
• Privileged Access Control (PAM)
• Building blocks for IAM solution implementation
• Building blocks for PAM solution and key considerations
• Transformation to cloud based IAM solution
• Best practices while deploying IAM and its components
• Recommended solution and OEMs for IAM
• Conclusion
• Questions

Vulnerability Management and Application Security

• Objectives
• Overview and concept understanding
• Vulnerability management lifecycle
• Vulnerability management process
• Risk-based vulnerability management
• Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
• Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
• Penetration testing
• Recommended tools in this space
• Maturity model for vulnerability management (VM)
• Recommended approach and best practices
• Conclusion
• Questions

Critical Infrastructure Component of Cloud and Data Classification

• Objectives
• Overview of infrastructure components of the cloud ecosystem
• Securing your cloud components
• Securing virtualization layer
• The risk associated with private cloud
• Securing private cloud
• Hybrid cloud security
• Multi-cloud Security
• Key security considerations for multi-cloud strategy
• Key Consideration for Cloud Security
• Overview and concept understanding of data classification
• Challenges to data classification
• Deep dive into the shared responsibility model
• Recommended approach best practices for data classification
• Conclusion
• Questions

Importance of Regulatory Requirements and Business Continuity

• Objectives
• Overview and concept understanding of compliance
• Importance of regulatory compliance
• Understanding of cybersecurity frameworks
• Business alignment with framework and regulations
• Cloud-based compliance requirements
• Selecting the right compliance for your business
• An approach to the compliance program
• Alignment of organizational compliance and security goals
• Overview and concept understanding of business continuity
• Importance of business continuity
• Business continuity planning (BCP)
• Business Continuity Management (BCM)
• Mapping business continuity with associated standards
• Business impact analysis (BIA)
• Recommendation for integrating cybersecurity with business continuity
• Recommendations to ensure compliance for organizations
• Conclusion
• Questions
• References and useful links

Risk Management - Life Cycle

• Objectives
• Overview of and understanding risk management
• Cybersecurity risk management - definition
• Importance of cybersecurity risk management
• The key consideration for cybersecurity risk management
• Risk appetite, scorecard, and prioritization
• To calculate your risk appetite
• Best practices for cybersecurity risk assessment
• Conclusion
• Questions

People, Process, and Awareness

• Objectives
• Importance of roles and responsibilities in cybersecurity
• To create an effective cybersecurity team
• Insourcing and outsourcing
• Resource demand and capacity management
• Role of HR in cybersecurity
• Third-party risk, vendor risk, and supply chain risk
• Mitigating third-party risks in supply chain management
• Third-party risk management audit
• Adoption of cybersecurity in project management
• Best practices for Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM)
• Security awareness training
• Best practices while adapting HR function for cybersecurity
• Conclusion
• Questions
• References

Threat Intelligence and Next-generation SIEM Solution

• Objectives
• Concept understanding of threat intelligence
• Common indicators of compromise (IoC)
• Importance of threat intelligence in cybersecurity space
• Threat intelligence lifecycle
• Advanced persistent threats (APT)
• Threat hunting
• Recommended open-source threat Intel feeds
• Security Incident Event Management (SIEM) overview
• next-generation SIEM Solution
• next-generation SIEM features
• Need for next-generation SIEM Solution and Core tenets
• Conceptual building blocks of next-generation SIEM
• Key considerations while selecting next-generation SIEM Solution
• Architecture, technology, and adoption path
• Strategy to evaluate and adopt next-generation SIEM solution
• Recommended vendors for next-Gen SIEM solution
• Best practices and the maturity path of next-generation SIEM solution
• Conclusion
• Questions

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

• Objectives
• Overview of Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
• Key credentials of CSPM
• Need for CSPM in the current landscape
• Importance of CSPM
• Working principle of CSPM
• Key considerations while selecting CSPM for your business
• Adoption Path
• Multi-cloud deployment scenario
• Leading vendors in this space
• Best practices around CSPM
• Conclusion
• Questions

Implementation of Guidelines and Templates

• Objectives
• Current challenges you face in your cybersecurity landscape
• Pillars of cybersecurity strategy
• Develop a step-by-step strategy for cybersecurity
• Gap analysis
• Defense in-depth approach
• Cybersecurity strategy plan - template
• Conclusion
• Questions

Best Practices and Recommendations

• Objectives
• Overview and need of the hour
• Network security best practices
• Data security best practices
• Best practices for managing and securing service accounts
• Recommended technologies for your maturity roadmap
• Deep dive to zero trust
• Deep dive to SD-WAN
• Deep dive to Secure Service Edge (SSE)
• Adoption of AI and ML
• Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR)
• Key considerations while selecting an open-source technology stack
• Conclusion
• Questions