Black Friday weekend presents heightened risks for both consumers and organisations hoping to capitalise on the surge in sales during this period. While the vulnerability of consumers is often the topic most talked about in the news, impersonation is a real risk for organisations. It’s time to revalidate your cyber risk mitigation strategy using NIST 2.0.
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) is a set of guidelines and best practices that helps organisations ro:
- Understand, manage, and reduce cyber security risk
- Protect their networks and data
- Fortify their cyber security posture
We’ve used these 6 guidelines to help you revalidate your risk mitigation strategy and create a tailored risk management programme for Black Friday weekend.
- Govern – Analyse cyber risks by assessing their impact and probability, factoring in existing mitigating measures, and prioritising the actions you need to take.
- Identify – Identify and list the assets with increased exposure e.g. websites, ecommerce platforms, etc.
- Protect – Implement processes that prevent cyber attacks:
- rebranding websites during the weekend
- updating all web applications and plugins
- carrying out a penetration test
- training employees in cyber security awareness.
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- Detect – Monitor everything (servers, website traffic, social media mentions) so you’re prepared to act as soon as possible.
- Respond – Be prepared to respond to an incident:
- have an incident response retainer
- carry out a crisis management exercise with a Black Friday theme
- Recover – Test IT disaster recovery plans
Contact Redcentric’s cyber security team to discuss your cyber security strategy. You can also read about how our vCISO can help you to provide the support you need.
