At this point, you hopefully have implemented a pretty solid cybersecurity program into your business. Building the program up from the bottom can be exhausting, and at this point you may want to just be finished with cybersecurity altogether. The reality is that new and more insidious cyber threats emerge every day. As more and more businesses embrace technology to power themselves, more and more innovations are going to be made to exploit them. All the security controls you implemented from this framework could be rendered completely ineffective next week.
To have a rock-solid cybersecurity program, you must continuously innovate the methods you use for your defense. The first victims of the next big cyber attack are going to be the ones who didn’t take the time to even consider that it would be coming. That doesn’t need to be you. Proactively keeping up with new developments in the world of technology is one of your best defenses. This has been discussed in the documentation on threat intelligence, but this can be as simple as scrolling through some cybersecurity news websites in the morning or enabling notifications on your phone for major events.
Another key requirement for keeping your security posture updated is understanding where your staff is at. Tabletop exercises, simulations, and open discussions across the workplace allow a comfortable culture of cybersecurity to foster. Regularly conducting these activities and gathering insights will allow you to iteratively make improvements to your cybersecurity program.
Sometimes, the best thing to do is to return to stage 1 of this framework and cycle through the process again. This framework is meant to be cycled through every few years, by which point your first cybersecurity program will be outdated and no longer sufficient to protect you. You may never have to build an entire cybersecurity program from the ground up again, but it is healthy to follow a continued cycle of risk assessments and policy/control updates.