Govern
Agree who owns cybersecurity risk and decisions.
Security requires more than one defensive control. It depends on knowing your environment, improving protections and planning how to respond.
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework offers a cross-sector approach to organizing risk. The steps below are an educational mapping, not a claim of company certification or NIST endorsement.
Agree who owns cybersecurity risk and decisions.
Understand systems, identities, data and vulnerabilities.
Apply suitable safeguards to reduce the likelihood and impact of threats.
Identify and analyze suspicious activity through scoped monitoring.
Escalate, communicate and act under pre-agreed authority.
Restore services, validate results and capture improvements.
Primary source: NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
List data sources, agents, accounts and supported systems in the actual scope.
Separate investigation, recommendations, approved containment and recovery.
Test alert pathways, access controls and restore procedures when applicable.
Review what must be in scope and who is responsible for each part of delivery.
Service responsibilities