Download: ‘Coronavirus Cyber Security for Management’ Template for CISOs

The Coronavirus crisis introduces critical operational
challenges to business continuity, placing high stress on
organizations’ management.

As a result, CIOs and CISOs face a double challenge on the cyber
risk front – apart from the new risks that the mass transfer of
employees working remotely brings, capturing the management
mindshare for further investments in security becomes harder than
ever.

The Definitive Corona
Cyber Security for Management PPT^[1]
template provides security executives with an easy and intuitive
tool to present management their existing security posture and
translate it to tangible business risk, as well as making the case
on how to address gaps if such exist.

From the CISO perspective, it’s hard to understand what there is
to explain – working remotely equals a mass increase in remote
credential theft attempts. Monitoring for malicious remote
connection to critical resources becomes extremely hard, if not
impossible.

Employees working from personal devices at home are vulnerable to
malware and phishing attempts. So, it should go without saying that
immediate action – and resources – are required to level up the
cyber protections to meet the new reality, shouldn’t it?

Unfortunately, in many cases, it’s not.

The intuitive connection CISOs make between, for example,
malicious remote login and critical business risk is not something
executive management typically make, nor the relationship between
the resources it takes to proactively address this risk and the
ones required to overcome the possible – or probable – breach that
would stem from this unattended exposure.

So, together with identifying the new risks, it’s imperative for
the CISO to communicate them to the executive management in a way
that would make it crystal clear that the subject is not technology
but the organization’s operational continuity. The discussion
should be about the level of risk the organization can contain,
making any decision on additional resource allocation the outcome
of the discussion rather than its core subject.

The Corona Cyber Security for Management PPT template (download
here^[2]) was built by Cynet to
assist CISOs with this task and ensure that they are equipped with
the best tool to communicate the Coronavirus related cyber risks to
their executive management. The PPT includes:

• A high-level list of the threats that either emerge or increase
  due to the Coronavirus quarantine.
• Mapping of these threats to tangible business risks.
• Mapping of current security technologies in place to the new
  threats, showing which are addressed and which are still
  effective.
• Facts and figures on the security team operation showing in
  what manner did it change during the Coronavirus period.
• Found gaps, prioritization, and suggested alternatives for a
  solution.

Naturally, there is no one size fits all, and the cyber risk of
one organization never resembles the risk of another.

Thus, the template is built in a modular form, so any CISO can
easily adjust it to his or her needs.

However, regardless of any custom modification, in all
variations, the template follows the theme of discussing business
risk rather than just technology.

Download the Corona Cyber
Security for Management PPT^[3]
template here.