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C-IT Recommendation

1. Assess your organization’s security capability to handle events an incidents. If your organization currently
2. Ensure your organization has a structure framework to address security. Frameworks provide a foundation to build effective security practices within an organization. Examples of frameworks include the National Institute of Standards and Technology Framework, International Organization for Standardization 27001, and Information System Audit and Control Association’s Control Objectives for IT.
   1. Ensures your organization has a plan for Information Security.
   2. Provides direction for developing information security policies, procedures, standards and guidelines
   3. Ensures organizations have administrative, physical and technical controls to deter, detect and/or prevent malicious behavior

Article Resources

The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) National Workforce Cybersecurity Framework

http://csrc.nist.gov/nice/framework/

NIST Cyber Security Framework

http://www.nist.gov/cyberframework/upload/cybersecurity-framework-021214.pdf

ISO\IEC 27001 Framework

http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=54534

ISACA COBIT

http://www.isaca.org/COBIT/Pages/default.aspx?cid=1003566&Appeal=PR

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Article Resources

Privacy International

https://www.privacyinternational.org/about-us