Organizational measures mean the introduction or change of the process, management system, control mechanisms, the introduction of a policy or work procedure, requirements for suppliers and the like.
Organizational measures mean changing processes
Organizational measures mean changing people's behavior or changing processes. In contrast to technical measures, which usually involve the acquisition or introduction of some technology, organizational measures are based on changes to processes, work or management.
What organizational measures are suitable for our company?
You are probably asking yourself this question too. Specific organizational measures must naturally be based on the specific situation and needs and size of your organization. A small family business with a few people and another company with thousands of employees will have different organizational measures.
Most of them are relatively easy to implement and combined with technical measures will help you against the most common IT risks.
Which organizational security measures every organization should have
Following list of best measures is based on best practice and only contains a basic list of measures that practice has shown to have the greatest impact.
The best measure to increase cyber security and resilience is certainly to increase awareness, basic cyber-literacy and education in the topics of cyber threats. People's unconscious behavior causes over 80% of risky situations, which can be greatly reduced by raising awareness of possible threats.
- Raise cybersecurity awareness and educate your people
- Limit access to sensitive critical data and control the access and permissions
- Make training as a natural part of employee onboarding
- Make sure you remove all the employee's access to systems and data during offboarding
- Treat all contracts with IT vendors and suppliers
- Have NDAs signed where applicable
- In contracts with employees, have data protection, intellectual property and possibly non-compete clauses
- Control access to data and systems
- Enforce a reasonable password policy - ensure all computers and phones are password protected
- Update the software you use regularly
- learn and motivate your employees to back up regularly
Our recommendation to security measures
Our security recommendation for businesses is to implement a combination of organizational and technical cyber security measures. These measures are crucial for safeguarding business data and other valuable information assets. Their primary objective is to mitigate potential threats.