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Cybersecurity Strategic Planning through the Assessment Process

You have been placed into your dream job, built some internal relationships, and picked a cybersecurity framework; now it is time to put them to use. First, you will need to perform an assessment to better understand the current state of your organization’s cybersecurity program. This can be accomplished in many different ways; however, one of the best ways to obtain this information is through performing a cybersecurity assessment. Once you have completed the assessment and concluded the current state, you need to understand the gaps between the current state and where you want to take your program.

In this chapter, we will learn how to perform such an assessment for an organization’s ...

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