The Cyber Security Handbook – Prepare for, respond to and recover from cyber attacks

CHAPTER 31: CONCLUSION

If you have made it this far, then hopefully you feel like the road towards cyber security is no longer an impossible journey. There are plenty of actions you can take that do not blow a hole in your budget or require extensive technical knowledge and experience to implement, and if you want to take things further, there are a range of standards and frameworks – including our CRF – that you can use to enhance and improve your cyber security programme, at the pinnacle of which are standards that offer a pathway to independent, external certification.

To get the best out of your cyber security programme, consider resilience and recovery alongside your cyber defence measures. A successful attack is a matter of when, not if, ...