Security News > 2022 > January > New Year, New Threats: 4 Tips to Activate Your Best Cyber-Defense
One of the most valuable steps an organization can take is to establish a cyber-threat profile, which is a deep-dive look at your organization's adversaries, vulnerabilities and risk.
The creation of a cyber-threat profile should be based on intelligence and due diligence and should be used to drive action for the other cyber-defense functions.
A cyber-threat profile ideally examines a combination of three key factors: the threat landscape, your organizational profile, and a risk and impact analysis.
The security architecture should then be designed to see all interactions with these crown-jewel assets and allow the security organization to respond to threats.
Using your cyber-threat profile as a guide, you can test your capabilities against active threats to your organization.
The good news is that establishing and activating your cyber-defenses doesn't have to happen overnight Start with establishing a cyber-threat profile; that, validation of existing controls and operations, and business goals will then guide how you build out your capabilities from there.