Cybersecurity frameworks provide guidelines and best practices for managing an organization's IT security architecture. Frameworks can be generalized or customized. They provide a systematic approach to identifying, assessing, and managing cybersecurity risks through continuous monitoring and improvement. Custom frameworks better address an organization's unique risk profile, business objectives, technologies, and challenges. They are designed by assessing security needs, identifying critical assets, determining the risk profile, and developing risk management protocols.

1. All About
Cybersecurity
Frameworks

2. Cybersecurity Frameworks, a set of guidelines and best practices, are
instrumental in managing an organization’s IT security architecture. Based on
prior experience, one can either generalize or custom-build cybersecurity
frameworks.
Cybersecurity frameworks provide organizations with a systematic approach to
managing and reducing cybersecurity risk. They help organizations identify,
assess, and manage cybersecurity risks while enabling continuous monitoring
and improvement of cybersecurity practices.
Introduction

3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Understanding Cybersecurity Frameworks
2. Why are Cybersecurity Frameworks Necessary?
4.How to Design a Custom Cybersecurity
Framework?
5. Steps to Build up a custom framework
3. Customized Cybersecurity Frameworks
6. Can we help?
9. Conclusion

4. 01
Understanding
Cybersecurity Frameworks

5. Cybersecurity Frameworks, a set of guidelines and best practices, are
instrumental in managing an organization’s IT security architecture. Based on
prior experience, one can either generalize or custom-build cybersecurity
frameworks.
Cybersecurity frameworks provide organizations with a systematic approach to
managing and reducing cybersecurity risk. They help organizations identify,
assess, and manage cybersecurity risks while enabling continuous monitoring
and improvement of cybersecurity practices. Some of the popular cybersecurity
frameworks include NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CIS Controls, ISO/IEC
27001, and COBIT.

6. 02
Why are Cybersecurity Frameworks
Necessary?

7. An organization’s security architecture is comprehensively guided by
cybersecurity frameworks and they delineate a set of best practices to be
followed in specific circumstances. Additionally, these documents carry response
strategies for significant incidents like breaches, system failures, and
compromises.
A framework is important because it helps standardize service delivery across
various companies over time and familiarizes terminologies, procedures, and
protocols within an organization or across the industry.

8. 03
Customized Cybersecurity
Frameworks

9. Every organization faces a unique set of challenges in cybersecurity. Generalized
frameworks provide a baseline and would work most of the time but would not
address unique situations and challenges. A customized framework would
adequately address the organization’s risk profile, business objectives, market
positioning, and technology landscape in which the organization operates

10. 04
How to Design a Custom
Cybersecurity Framework?

11. Based on the general cybersecurity frameworks discussed above, you can
first prepare a skeleton framework and then customize it according to
organization-specific requirements.

12. 05
Steps to Build up a custom
framework

13. 1. Assess the organization’s current security needs. Doing a SWOT analysis would be a
great start. Internal Strengths and Weaknesses, as well as external ideas and
Opportunities to develop capabilities, would be very helpful. Finally, identify Threats
that have the most significance based on public and organization-specific data.
2. Identify critical assets and information which can impair operations in case they are
affected.
3. Determine the risk profile of the organization. For example, a high-risk organization
would be a Financial Lending service since they operate on borrowed money and
would require to undergo severe investigation before they can claim insurance.
Similarly, a relatively low-risk organization would be an online news agency because
the website data is backed up almost daily.
4. Develop a risk management protocol. The assets which are critical need to be backed
up over several locations with servers spread in distant geographies. Further, sensitive
information like customer data would have to be encrypted several times to ensure that
any attempt at data breach yields no result for the attacker.

14. 06
Can we help?

15. It becomes challenging, if not difficult, for several companies which
have smaller teams to carry out the entire Cybersecurity Framework
creation exercise. Further, there is always a need for external expertise
to provide an alternative view of existing problems.
Metaorange Digital can help you design cybersecurity frameworks with
the latest security components, tools, and innovative strategies. A 15-
minute discovery call can help you identify hidden weaknesses in your
systems and eliminate them permanently.

16. 07
Conclusion

17. Cybersecurity frameworks act as a knowledge repository to deal
with the problems of the future. They can help you secure critical
assets, deploy suitable countermeasures, and restore system
capabilities at the earliest.

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