Understand what matters
Identify important information, critical systems, external access, and business dependencies. Give priority to exposures that could interrupt operations or compromise sensitive data.
Prioritize controls around business impact, exposure, and what your organization can sustain.
Identify important information, critical systems, external access, and business dependencies. Give priority to exposures that could interrupt operations or compromise sensitive data.
Review MFA, privileged access, endpoint protection, patching, backup, and email defenses. Assign owners and record how these controls are checked.
Give each remediation an owner, a target date, and a validation step. Leadership should see the risks accepted, the gaps remaining, and the next investment decision.