Part 2: An executive’s 3-point checklist for cybersecurity

In Part 1 of this series, we outlined what exactly constitutes a data breach, and the first of three important ways to protect your credit union.

For a thorough and successful protection plan, the second point on your cybersecurity checklist must be to establish an information security policy, business continuity plan, and incident response plan.

1.  An information security policy should ensure that anyone using information technology within the domain of your credit union or your networks complies with rules and guidelines in place to protect the security of information stored digitally at any point in your network or within your four walls.

2.  A business continuity plan outlines how your credit union will respond to and recover from business disruptions, including those caused by cyber events. This plan has four defined phases:

 

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