Network Security Best Practices

Organizations need to take a top down approach to network security, developing a policy that defines what it is you need to protect and from what.

In addition, understanding why protecting those assets is important enables you to communicate the need to your employees so that they understand their role in helping to secure the environment.

To begin developing your organization's network security best practices, you need a three step approach: preparation, organization and execution.

Preparation includes understanding what levels of security are appropriate to your organization and defining acceptable use policies of systems and data by category of users; conducting a risk analysis to identify possible security exposures in the network and assigning a risk level based on what could occur if that system was compromised; and defining a cross-functional security team that will take responsibility for communicating the policies, responding to security breaches, and reporting to senior management. Armed with your security policies and risk analysis, you can now organize the issues that need to be resolved based on risk to the organization, beginning with the highest risk category and working down the list. Organizing the effort gives your IT team the definitive list of systems in order of risk, enabling them to take care of the highest risk systems first.

Rapid7 consultants can help you define your organization's security best practices, leveraging our extensive knowledge in vulnerability and risk assessment to develop a plan, conduct a risk analysis, and provide you the tools to find and fix security issues. Contact us to discuss your requirements and see how Rapid7 can help you develop security best practices for your enterprise network.