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Life Is a Breach - What Will It Cost Your Company?

Life’s a Breach – Are You Ready?

Ready to put risk intelligence into a language your boardroom speaks?

There are misconceptions about data breaches, their affect, impact, and cost. Don’t allow yourself to think, “We haven’t been breached”, “We won’t get breached”, or “A breach won’t seriously affect us”.

The odds are good that you’ve already been breached and don’t know it. What should concern you is whether or not you know what was stolen.

Surprisingly, most small business owners don’t know what data they are holding that could cost them the most. Nor do they know where their critical data lives, or who has access to it.

If you choose not to take a proactive stance on your businesses security, you should at least know what data matters most to your business, where it resides, and who has access to it.

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You run your business from your laptop, using Dropbox, Google Drive, and Gmail. You come to work one day and find your computer locked, with a note on the screen indicating that you’ve become the latest ransomware victim.

One of the very first things you will think is: How much will this impact me if I don’t pay? What if I just lost my entire laptop to this ransomware?

Knowing your risk intelligence before a breach happens will help you answer these questions when the time comes. If you think you will avoid ransomware and/or a breach forever, you are kidding yourself.

In the ransomware laptop scenario, here are a few other things you should consider. This is what you most likely gave to a hacker:

Employee data that might have existed on your laptop

Customer data that might have existed on your laptop

User names and passwords, most likely stored on your laptop

Account numbers, credit card numbers, social security numbers, most likely stored on your laptop

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To improve your risk intelligence, you must be able to answer these questions confidently and consistently.

What data is at Risk?

How can attackers get your data?

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How much will a breach cost you?

What Data Is At Risk?

Unprotected data at reset puts your entire business at risk to data loss.

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You wonder about your exposure to malware like WannaCry and other ransomware, but do you know what data is at risk?

How Can Attackers Get Your Data?

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Do you know how attackers will get at your data?

Do you know what backdoors exist in your business that allows data thieves to easily steal your critical data?

Do You Know Who Has Access To Your Data?

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Does everyone in your organization have easy access to your data?

Sometimes, to get the job done, we give everyone access to everything, and that becomes a very big problem when there is a data breach.

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The Truth Behind New Cybersecurity Rules for Contractors

No, the sky is not falling, and no, you probably won’t lose your defense contracts either.

With December 31, 2017 just around the corner, many technology firms, news agencies, and people claiming to be experts are waving the red flag, fanning the flames, and doing their best to incite some panic.

Well, here is the real truth about these new ‘cybersecurity’ rules for defense contractors. There’s no need to take my word for what they say because I’m going to paste the exact words right here:

(1)  By submission of this offer, the Offeror represents that it will implement the security requirements specified by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-171 “Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Information Systems and Organizations” (see http://dx.doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-171) that are in effect at the time the solicitation is issued or as authorized by the contracting officer not later than December 31, 2017.

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http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/dars/dfars/html/current/252204.htm#252.204-7008

If you like, you can visit that link and get the entire supplement, but I wouldn’t bother. Here are the top truths about this supplement.

Look for the keyword in the text above that I pasted in for you. See the word ‘will’? Do you think that means you MUST comply by 12/31/2017?

There are no cybersecurity police that are going to come knock on your office door and take your contracts

A Contracting Officer (KO) doesn’t know that much about cybersecurity, NIST 800-171, or the Risk Management Framework (RMF)

The KO of your current contracts will not magically pass down some special authorization or ruling that will impact your current contracts

Don’t listen to all of the big IT vendors who are telling you it will take 6-12 months to implement the technology necessary to comply

If you have the time to read the 110 security controls listed in NIST 800-171, you will notice the high percentage of controls which are not impacted by technology, but rather by people and process

That said, does this mean you just thumb your nose at this guidance? Absolutely not!

In my recent experiences with my customers, and what I expect to see more of in the future, is preferential weighting to contractors who produce well-documented cybersecurity operational readiness statements in their proposals.

It is unlikely that there will be any type of forced compliance to this new guidance. However, there is nothing saying that companies who implement the guidance, and assure the government of their dedication and diligence regarding the protection of federal information, won’t win more contracts than companies who do nothing.

What you SHOULD be doing

For the last 2.5 years, TOPSTONE has been developing a simplified program to help businesses align with this DFARS supplement. Not because we could see the future, but because this guidance went into effect way back in 2013 and no one did anything. The guidance was literally ignored by defense contractors.

The struggle many business owners have is understanding what NIST 800-171 means, how to apply it, and more importantly, where to start.

First, you need to realize that NIST 800-171 is about so much more than just your technology. I know this because I authored the 110 questions in our client intake self-assessment form. That’s what I mean when I say ‘simplified’. We took the security controls and did the geek–>business speak interpretation for our clients, and then presented the controls in simple yes/no questions.

Not surprising, many of these questions are about people, policy, and process, which you just can’t fix with more stuff that goes blinky-blinky in a rack.

What you need is a plan that allows you to determine how to get started, what you should assess, and most importantly, after you figure that out, what you should do first, second, and third.

You’ve got questions, and we’ve got answers. Through our MORTAR program, we can help you get to the point where your proposals boast your cybersecurity operational readiness in big bold print, and you’ll have the artifacts to back it up.

Thanks for reading!

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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

B.C. Forbes

Don’t get caught up in the moment during a data breach or other disaster and allow a vendor to begin work on your systems, in your offices, or with your employees until you have a signed contract in place.

According to Ts & Cs, here are 10 reasons you need a contract3.

A contract will help you to navigate the law

A contract helps you to get paid

A contract helps to minimise disputes or problems

A contract protects your intellectual property

A contract limits liability

A contract creates certainty

A contract provide in-depth coverage of your business

A contract helps you to give good customer service

A contract helps to build trust and give peace of mind

A contract allows you to manage expectations

If you find skipping the contract because you don’t have a good starting point for one, I’ve included a template and good starting point for one. This template is provided as is and you are welcome to modify it to suit your needs. All contracts should be reviewed by appropriate legal counsel before being used.

Download the template here –> General Contract for Services

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Cybersecurity Frameworks for Small Businesses

Many small businesses today are grassroots based and organically grown. This style of growth can mean that the information technology infrastructure is also organically grown. As operations and technology mature, it can be difficult to align with a formal framework, such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Risk Management Framework (RMF)1.

Even with a competent and talented information technology team, small businesses will likely need to assistance of an outside auditor or mentor to help align with and adopt such a framework. For this article, the CompTIA Security Trustmark+2 will be used to explain key concepts.

Businesses hoping to make the leap from good to great3 will need to possess the foresight to recognize the importance of this topic.

A key roadblock for small business leaders and owners is the failure to comprehend the complexity of aligning with and complying with a framework. This failure is not on the part of business leaders and owners but the cybersecurity industry.

This article will present a brief overview of what alignment means and will detail the initial steps business leaders, and owners should take to get started.

Organizations working to align with a particular framework must:

Complete the steps necessary to document the current state of the infrastructure

Select a series of controls to use to assess compliance (alignment) with the framework

Implement the controls

Determine their effectiveness

Authorize the newly aligned system to operate

Monitor the system for change

The topic of aligning with a framework is too large a concept for business owners to digest. Breaking the task into smaller component pieces allows the company to step through a guided process to:

Phase I – Get familiar with how they currently operate

Phase II – Determine what security controls apply to their systems

Phase III – Look for gaps and areas out of alignment or missing

Phase IV – Engineer changes to bring the organization into alignment

Phase V – Assess for effectiveness

Phase VI – Formally authorize the system to operate

Phase VII – Monitor

You might be thinking, “how or where do I get started?”.

First, select a framework and do not develop your framework from scratch. As mentioned earlier in this article, the CompTIA Security Trustmark+ business certification is an excellent framework for small businesses for the following reasons.

Based on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework

Provides a cost-effective path for demonstrating compliance with the principal industry regulations such as PCI-DSS, SSAE-16, HIPAA, and others reliant on the NIST Framework

Second, find an organization that can guide your team through the processes mentioned above. Wasting time and money struggling to figure things out on your own is money well wasted. The framework you implement will grow and mature with your company for decades to come. Now is the time to be comprehensive and detailed in your approach.

To correctly align with any framework, the organization will need to look at more than just technology. Risk management frameworks are comprehensive and encompass the management, operations, and technical aspects of your business.

At the end of it all, there are only three things you as the business owner can do with risk.

Accept it

Transfer it

Mitigate it

Before you can do any of these three things with risk, you must first know what it is.

Thanks for reading — If you would like to continue the conversation, please feel free to contact me at cale.dansbee@topstone.com

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