Cyber Hygiene Importance

Cybersecurity hygiene –a shared security mindset

Cyber hygiene is a cybersecurity practice that maintains the basic health and security of an environment by establishing preventative routines for managing the most common cybersecurity threats. Federal Engineering Delivery’s cyber ​​security services create routines that recognize threats and reduce access to sensitive information.

The Challenge: The Federal Government spends about $100 billion annually on IT related services. These dollars support the overall modernization, operations, and maintenance of our Government’s IT infrastructure, which is protected by cybersecurity plans, policies, and procedures. These plans create a strong cybersecurity foundation, but cyber hygiene is required to improve an organization’s overall security posture while defending against current and future cyber threats.

The Approach: Cyber hygiene is a set of routine practices utilized by an organization’s IT management team to ensure the safe handling of critical information and protecting networks. Cyber hygiene benefits an organization by spreading the cyber responsibility amongst more than the cybersecurity team and creates a unified cyber security approach. This eliminates the uninformed managers and system administrators, placing an emphasis on everyone doing their part to keep the data and networks secure. Sharing the responsibility enhances everyone’s awareness of their cyber footprint. i.e. a former employees active directory account was not disabled per the employee exit process, creating a point of potential exposure for cyber-attacks.

The Solution: Federal Engineering Delivery’s vulnerability and security assessments provide a comprehensive valuation of existing vulnerabilities based on an organization’s current security posture. We verify our client’s compliance with security regulations, conduct a gap analysis per the ANSI/ASIS/RIMS standard, identify vulnerabilities, conduct asset discovery, baseline security controls, and addresses points of exposure to enhance our client’s ability to identify and respond to cybersecurity incidents. We analyze our findings to create and implement cyber security improvement plans, including cyber hygiene, to increase an organization’s security posture.