Importance of Continuous Improvement

All business IT infrastructures are unique 

While the ‘unknown’ is appealing to some, most humans will generally resist change. Be that as it may, change is a necessity for business growth, and a ‘continuous improvement’ culture must be adopted for operational excellence. 

If you touched upon my last blog on our Cyber Security Maturity Model, you’ll recognise that the above is often true in the cybersecurity industry. But while there are countless guidelines and frameworks for enterprise security, all businesses are unique and therefore, it’s important to analyse your own IT infrastructure and adapt and evolve where needed. 


What is Continuous Improvement?

Continuous improvement is a concept most of us are familiar with in some shape or form, and it should be no stranger to the world of security. CI efforts can be incremental improvements over time, or breakthrough improvement all at once. Like most things, a cybersecurity strategy needs regular tweaking to compete with the ever-changing threat environment — after all, no organization is breach-proof.

Where are you on the maturity scale?

Today, we are spoiled for choice when it comes to cyber technology, but before making a decision on where to spend your security budget, we must understand where our cybersecurity strategy currently stands, and where we want it to be in the future to reach the next level of maturity (outlined in last blog). 

Information Security is a complex problem in many ways: complex networks, complex requirements and complex technology. But it would be much more manageable if it were static. However, it is far from static. New systems are added to the network. Business requirements change frequently. And the threat landscape is extremely dynamic. Managing security in this environment is a significant challenge.

Improving security requires more than just fixing what is broke. It requires measuring the effectiveness of security operations; technology, people and processes. Continually assessing the security controls defined and measuring the results over time creates a framework to measure security operations. Setting the expectation that improvement is the goal will result in improved security.

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