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'''Title''': ''Comprehensive Guide to Developing and Implementing a Cybersecurity Plan''

'''Edition''': First

'''Author for citation''': Shawn E. Douglas

'''License for content''': [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International]

'''Publication date''': July 2020


Look across the internet and you will find a wealth of [[information]] about [[cybersecurity]] and the cybersecurity plan. However, much of that information is either disparate or, if comprehensive, difficult to access or expensive to acquire. In particular, a walk-through of the various steps involved with how an organization or individual develops, enforces, and maintains a cybersecurity plan is difficult to come by. This guide attempts to fill that gap, including not only a 10-step walk-through but also insight into regulations, standards, and cybersecurity standards frameworks, as well as how they all fit together with cybersecurity planning. Additionally, this document provides access to ''[[:File:An Example Cybersecurity Plan - Shawn Douglas - v1.0.pdf|An Example Cybersecurity Plan]]'', a companion document that provides a representative example of the 10-step walk-through put to use. This guide also includes a slightly simplified version of many of the security controls found in the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Special Publication 800-53, Rev. 4, with additional resources to provide context, and mappings to [[Book:LIMSpec 2019 R1|LIMSpec]], an evolving set of specifications for laboratory informatics solutions and their development. The guide attempts to be helpful to most any organization attempting to navigate the challenges of cybersecurity planning, with a slight bias towards [[Laboratory|laboratories]] implementing and updating information systems.

The table of contents for ''Comprehensive Guide to Developing and Implementing a Cybersecurity Plan'' is as follows:


1. [[LII:Comprehensive Guide to Developing and Implementing a Cybersecurity Plan/What is a cybersecurity plan and why do you need it?|What is a cybersecurity plan and why do you need it?]]

:1.1 Cybersecurity planning and its value

2. [[LII:Comprehensive Guide to Developing and Implementing a Cybersecurity Plan/What are the major regulations and standards dictating cybersecurity action?|What are the major regulations and standards dictating cybersecurity action?]]

:2.1 Cybersecurity standards frameworks

3. [[LII:Comprehensive Guide to Developing and Implementing a Cybersecurity Plan/Fitting a cybersecurity standards framework into a cybersecurity plan|Fitting a cybersecurity standards framework into a cybersecurity plan]]

:3.1 How do cybersecurity controls and frameworks guide plan development?

4. [[LII:Comprehensive Guide to Developing and Implementing a Cybersecurity Plan/NIST Special Publication 800-53, Revision 4 and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework|NIST Special Publication 800-53, Revision 4 and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework]]

:4.1 NIST Cybersecurity Framework

5. [[LII:Comprehensive Guide to Developing and Implementing a Cybersecurity Plan/Develop and create the cybersecurity plan|Develop and create the cybersecurity plan]]

:5.1 Develop strategic cybersecurity goals and define success
:5.2 Define scope and responsibilities
:5.3 Identify cybersecurity requirements and objectives
:5.4 Establish performance indicators and associated time frames
:5.5 Identify key stakeholders
:5.6 Determine resource needs
:5.7 Develop a communications plan
:5.8 Develop a response and continuity plan
:5.9 Establish how the overall cybersecurity plan will be implemented
:5.10 Review progress

6. [[LII:Comprehensive Guide to Developing and Implementing a Cybersecurity Plan/Closing remarks|Closing remarks]]

:6.1 Recap and closing

Appendix 1. [[LII:Comprehensive Guide to Developing and Implementing a Cybersecurity Plan/A simplified description of NIST Special Publication 800-53 controls, with ties to LIMSpec|A simplified description of NIST Special Publication 800-53 controls, with ties to LIMSpec]]

:Appendix 1.1 Access control
:Appendix 1.2 Awareness and training
:Appendix 1.3 Audit and accountability
:Appendix 1.4 Security assessment and authorization
:Appendix 1.5 Configuration management
:Appendix 1.6 Contingency planning
:Appendix 1.7 Identification and authentication
:Appendix 1.8 Incident response
:Appendix 1.9 Maintenance
:Appendix 1.10 Media protection
:Appendix 1.11 Physical and environmental protection
:Appendix 1.12 Planning
:Appendix 1.13 Personnel security
:Appendix 1.14 Risk assessment
:Appendix 1.15 System and services acquisition
:Appendix 1.16 System and communications protection
:Appendix 1.17 System and information integrity