Cyber Security Maturity Modeling and Road Mapping

Cyber Security Maturity Modeling and Road Mapping

Today’s top executives including board members of organizations increasingly recognize that a cyberattack could cripple their operations and may result in millions of dollars in lost business and reputational damage as well as cleanup costs. Maturity models are effective tools to improve an organization’s cybersecurity capabilities and respective outcomes. For an enterprise, key is the selection of a model or models and how they are going to use it.

It is important that your team responsible for cyber security, understands the cyber security maturity model concepts available, and examines them with their recent examples/ experiences in cyber security/ resilience domains. It is paramount to choose the right model for the specific needs of your business and the vertical that you operate in.

What are Cyber security Maturity Models?

  • In simple terms, they are the methodology to convey a path of experience, knowledge, precision, or acculturation.
  • They Help distinguish between organizations in which security is baked in and those in which it is merely bolted on
  • They Empower organizational leadership with a way to measure the progress made in embedding security into its day-to-day and strategic operations
  • The subject of a Cyber security Maturity model can be your work force, practices, processes, tools, technologies and controls in place.

Why are Cyber security Maturity Models important for you?

  • They are a Means for assessing and benchmarking your cyber performance.
  • They give you the Ability to assess how a set of cyber strengths have evolved over the period
  • They are a Means to identify cyber gaps and develop improvement plans
  • They identify Short and Long-Term Roadmaps for model-based improvements
  • They Demonstrate results of improvement efforts

Key Components of a Cyber security Maturity Model

A cyber security maturity model calls for a range of capabilities that you would expect to see in an organization with an effective approach to cyber security. These capabilities will include things like effective leadership and governance or information risk management processes. Each capability will have a description of the kinds of activities and processes you would expect to see present in the organization, at different levels of maturity. An organization seeking to assess its overall cybersecurity maturity would compare its own practices against those described in the levels of each capability. These assessments would need to be backed up by some sort of evidence to justify the assessment(s) made.

Cyber Security Maturity Modeling and Road Mapping

They are a Means for assessing and benchmarking your cyber performance.

They give you the Ability to assess how a set of cyber strengths have evolved over the period.

They are a Means to identify cyber gaps and develop improvement plans.

They identify Short and Long-Term Roadmaps for model-based improvements.

They Demonstrate results of improvement efforts.

Cyber Security Maturity Model

A cybersecurity maturity model calls for a range of capabilities that you would expect to see in an organization with an effective approach to cybersecurity. These capabilities will include things like effective leadership and governance or information risk management processes. Each capability will have a description of the kinds of activities and processes you would expect to see present in the organization, at different levels of maturity. An organization seeking to assess its overall cybersecurity maturity would compare its own practices against those described in the levels of each capability. These assessments would need to be backed up by some sort of evidence to justify the assessment(s) made.

How can CyberGen Help you?

A cybersecurity maturity model calls for a range of capabilities Cybersecurity effectiveness does not mean perfection—it means having the tools essential to manage the inevitable cyber-crises that will come. And they will come. But so, will the opportunities—to improve processes, to button down loose ends, to create clarity and awareness and to perhaps even improve products and services. CyberGen provides cybersecurity advisory services throughout the security lifecycle, helping with cybersecurity strategy, planning, ongoing program improvement and road mapping. Our expert team will support you with the development of comprehensive information security strategies that are effective, manageable and offer maximum return on cybersecurity investments while addressing emerging threats and risks specific to your organization’s business processes.


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Identify Current State

Determine regulatory and statutory compliance requirements

Review existing cybersecurity processes, policies, practices and framework

Identify existing cyber risk

Conduct Assessments

Identify cyber threats to your business

Review existing cyber risks

Define probability and likelihood

Catalogue identified risks

Formulate risk heat maps

Define a TargetState

Recognize mitigation strategies

Translate mitigations into anticipated outcomes

Define probability and likelihood

State goals for desired outcomes

Review and outline security primacies

Roadmap

Quantify and score current state

Establish budget and identify resources

Plan targets within budgets

Share outcomes with participants and stakeholders