Overview

Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting assets, including computers, networks, information systems, and data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction. Cybersecurity involves implementing a combination of technologies, processes, and controls in order to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive information, protect against data breaches and cyber attacks, and ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information systems.

Cybersecurity is becoming increasingly important due to the increasing reliance on technology in all aspects of society has made information systems and the data they contain more vulnerable to attack. Cybersecurity is therefore critical for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information systems, as well as the people, organizations, and societies that rely on them.

Cybersecurity Frameworks

A cybersecurity framework is a set of guidelines for how to structure the cybersecurity standards, tools, teams, practices, and processes that an organization uses to secure their systems.

Cybersecurity Standards

A cybersecurity standard is a set of requirements designed to protect an organization, facility, system, component, information, or other asset.

Cybersecurity Principles

TODO: INTRODUCTION.

Cybersecurity Practices

Cybersecurity consists of a number of categories of practices and activities. A common set of categories are those defined by NIST in the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF):

  1. Identify
  2. Protect
  3. Detect
  4. Respond
  5. Recover

Why Cybersecurity?

Cybersecurity is an important facet of technology and technology development. Increasingly bundled into DevOps and branded as DevSecOps.

References