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CISA Cyber Essentials framework

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Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) Cyber Essentials is a guide for leaders of small businesses as well as leaders of small and local government agencies to develop an actionable understanding of where to start implementing organizational cybersecurity practices.

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Requirements (16)

your systems382
your-systems-1Learn what is on your network. Maintain inventories of hardware and software assets to know what is in play and at-risk from attack.4
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your-systems-2Leverage automatic updates for all operating systems and third-party software.3
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your-systems-3Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.75
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your surroundings418
your-surroundings-1Learn who is on your network. Maintain inventories of network connections (user accounts, vendors, business partners, etc.).2
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your-surroundings-2Leverage multi-factor authentication for all users, starting with privileged, administrative and remote access users.3
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your-surroundings-3Grant access and admin permissions based on need-to-know and least privilege.8
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your-surroundings-4Leverage unique passwords for all user accounts.5
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your data564
your-data-1Learn how your data is protected.12
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your data

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your-data-2Learn what is happening on your network, manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.44
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your-data-3Domain name system protection.1
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your data

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your-data-4Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.7
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your-data-5Leverage protections for backups, including physical security, encryption and offline copies.0
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your crisis response12
your-crisis-response-2Lead development of an internal reporting structure to detect, communicate and contain attacks.2
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booting up thing to do first311
booting-up-thing-to-do-first-1Lead development of an internal reporting structure to detect, communicate and contain attacks.5
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booting-up-thing-to-do-first-2Require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for accessing your systems whenever possible. MFA should be required of all users, but start with privileged, administrative, and remote access users.3
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booting-up-thing-to-do-first-3Enable automatic updates whenever possible. Replace unsupported operating systems, applications and hardware. Test and deploy patches quickly.3
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