Maintenance
Perform maintenance of industrial control and information systems as per organization policy.
Establish a cybersecurity benchmark and prioritize
actions to manage risks
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) consists of voluntary guidelines and standards to manage the cybersecurity risks across an entire organization or its critical infrastructures. It offers a flexible, repeatable, and cost-effective approach towards managing cybersecurity risks.
The framework was originally imagined as a cybersecurity risk management system for the critical infrastructures of US. Today, it has been widely implemented in private and public sectors across organizational departments and the around the globe.
ManageEngine's guide to implementing the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Organizations can examine their current security posture and prioritize opportunities to strengthen it.
Focus on critical service delivery components to make the implementation process cost-effective.
Comply with other existing global standards and mandates easily.
Assess risks objectively and formulate an action plan to bring them to tolerance level.
Transform reactive cybersecurity practices into an agile, risk-informed approach.
Ensure the products and services from partners meet critical security outcomes.
The framework core consists of key risk management activities that help organizations realize cybersecurity outcomes that align with their business objectives.
The core comprises of five functions: identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover. It offers a holistic strategy to understand potential security threats, mitigate their impact, and recover with minimal business disruption.
The functions are not meant to be a serial path towards a desired state. They outline a set of actions that can be performed concurrently and continuously to develop an organizational culture that addresses emerging cybersecurity risks.
The framework profile represents an organization's desired target cybersecurity posture. An organization can develop its profile by selecting all the most important cybersecurity outcomes outlined under the framework functions based on its business goals, risk tolerances, and resources.
By creating a current profile and comparing it with the target profile, organizations can identify opportunities to improve their cybersecurity program. Based on the priority and estimated cost of the corrective efforts, organizations can plan for cybersecurity improvement measures.
The implementation tiers illustrate the degree to which an organization's established cybersecurity program reflects the characteristics outlined in the framework. It helps in understanding the scope of cybersecurity practices implemented to manage risks.
The tiers are not maturity levels. Organizations should move towards a higher tier when they have the resources and budget for reducing their cybersecurity risks.
Irregular, reactive risk management practices with limited awareness of cybersecurity risks.
Some awareness of cybersecurity risks, but limited establishment of a risk management program at an organizational level.
Consistent cybersecurity risk management program across an organization with processes to respond based on changes in the threat landscape.
Advanced response system capable of effectively improving its risk management program based on previous incidents and predictive indicators.
Identify
Protect
Detect
Respond
Recover
Identify data and assets and manage them as per business objectives and organizational risk strategy.
Identify and manage hardware and software assets within your network.
Locate sensitive personal data within files and catalog it.
Discover, monitor, and manage the assets in your IT network by periodic scans to keep the asset information up to date.
Catalog external information systems used in your organization with integrated CASB.
Define cybersecurity roles and make informed risk management decisions based on organizations' objectives, stakeholders, and operations.
Understand policies instituted to monitor the organization's regulatory, legal, and operational requirements, and keep management informed of the cybersecurity risks.
Establish strict governance over privileged access pathways.
Get detailed reports on the status and activities of users in Active Directory.
Gain visibility into the activities of high-risk users.
Simplify compliance demonstration with audit-ready report templates for PCI DSS, HIPAA, FISMA, CCPA, the GDPR, and more.
Determine cybersecurity risks to organizational services, assets, and personnel.
Discover, assess, and prioritize vulnerable endpoints in your network.
Discover, analyze, and protect sensitive information stored in your network.
Detect and analyze security risks in your cloud infrastructure.
Monitor your network with insider threat detection capabilities.
Establish a risk management system supported by organizational objectives and risk tolerances.
Establish complex password management, the principle of least privilege, and memory protection to ensure network security.
Discover sensitive data and classify it based on sensitivity to ensure protection and compliance.
Identify suspicious privileged activity by leveraging AI- and ML-driven capabilities and terminate malicious behavior.
Restrict asset access to authorized users and devices, and manage risk associated with unauthorized access.
Manage and safeguard data as per the organizational risk policy to protect confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
Maintain security policies to safeguard information systems and assets.
Secure administrative access to critical systems through privileged pathways.
Configure data leak prevention and file copy policies to secure endpoints.
Configure stringent passcode and device lock policies to protect corporate assets.
Automate configuration backups and database backups to withstand network mishaps.
Perform maintenance of industrial control and information systems as per organization policy.
Establish and manage technical cybersecurity solutions to ensure consistent and resilient system security.
Adopt a Zero Trust security approach by leveraging a trust scoring mechanism for users and devices and policy-based access controls (PBAC).
Safeguard your network from internal and external agents by detecting threats.
Limit malware intrusions by blacklisting malicious executables.
Mitigate ransomware attacks through threshold-based file access patterns.
Ensure endpoint security with proactive scans and automated defense mechanisms against threats.
Detect zero-day network threats, firewall rule anomalies, and rogue devices.
Detect anomalous activities and discover their potential impact.
Monitor assets and information systems for incidents and verify security measures regularly.
Gain insights into your security incidents by monitoring and collecting extensive audit data from servers, firewalls, applications, and endpoints.
Scan the entire network for vulnerability detection and remediate patch deployment.
Monitor privileged user activities, data access, and network access, and receive real-time alerts for incidents.
Ensure the effectiveness of anomaly detection processes through testing.
Establish and maintain a consistent response to cybersecurity events.
Remediate threats and vulnerabilities by automating the deployment of patches to operating systems and third-party applications.
Modify or revoke NTFS permissions to limit exposure of sensitive files.
Automate and accelerate threat response through standard workflows, and streamline incident management by integrating with ticketing tools.
Coordinate response activities with internal and external stakeholders.
Conduct analysis to ensure effective responses to support recovery.
Limit and mitigate the impact of incidents and resolve them promptly.
Integrate lessons learned from incidents to improve organizational response measures.
Perform and maintain recovery processes to restore systems affected by cybersecurity incidents.
Incorporate lessons learned to improve recovery measures.
Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders on restoration activities.
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The complete implementation of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework requires a variety of solutions, processes, people, and technologies. The solutions mentioned above are some of the ways in which IT management tools can help with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework implementation. Coupled with other appropriate solutions, processes, and people, ManageEngine's solutions help comply with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. This material is provided for informational purposes only, and should not be considered as legal advice for NIST Cybersecurity Framework implementation. ManageEngine makes no warranties, express, implied, or statutory, as to the information in this material.