From the course: Translating Cybersecurity for SMBs - Using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
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Understand what you have
From the course: Translating Cybersecurity for SMBs - Using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
Understand what you have
- [Instructor] How can you protect what you don't know about? The next function in the cybersecurity framework is identify. In cybersecurity, it's important to understand what you have, so you know what to protect. The identify function includes three categories, asset management, risk assessment, and improvement. We're going to start with asset management to help us understand what we have. Regardless of what sector you work in, it's important to know what enables your business to function. From hardware, to software, to applications, to people, or even the data you process, you need to have a handle on what you have and how important it's to your business. When you think about managing assets, a helpful example could be to think about a big box store. Think about all the different types of merchandise on the shelves. Each item has a different price, a different quantity on the shelf. Some of those items might even have a shelf life and would expire over time. And just like in…
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