EXECUTIVES: FIVE KEY CYBERSECURITY STEPS TO PROTECT YOUR ORGANIZATION, AND THE VITAL TIMING As an executive that leads, and depends on, your IT Professionals or outsourced IT provider, be sure to know these five essential steps that have a massive impact on your cybersecurity protection and how frequently your team must address them:
BY MIKE FOSTER THE FOSTER INSTITUTE
1. Apply Critical Security Updates – This is an essential yet never-ending task. Executives decide how soon they want the updates installed after release. It is common to apply workstation updates immediately. Focus on updating servers as quickly as your IT team can support, preferably less than a week to test, practice uninstalling, and deploy updates in stages. Remember to update non-Microsoft products. Patch your infrastructure devices, including firewalls and routers. Continued on next page... USSWIMSCHOOLS.ORG | 7
