Ambidextrous Cybersecurity: The Seven Pillars (7Ps) of Cyber Resilience (2024)

FAQs

What are the 7Ps of cyber security? ›

These activities are often conceptualized as “the 4Ps”: product, price, promotion, and place. In services, this is expanded to “the 7Ps”, adding physical evidence (or environment), processes, and people (Booms and Bitner, 1981).

A solid cyber resilience strategy includes many of the controls mandated by compliance regulations, including access governance, cyber risk management, vulnerability remediation, physical security, intrusion detection, and incident response.

The 7Ps of marketing, also known as the marketing mix, is a concept established by E. Jerome McCarthy in the 1960s. The 7Ps comprise Product, Price, Place, Promotion, People, Process, and Physical evidence.

The 7P's of Service Marketing encompass Product, Price, Place, Promotion, People, Process, and Physical Evidence.

Dr Ginsburg, child paediatrician and human development expert, proposes that there are 7 integral and interrelated components that make up being resilient – competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping and control.

NIST's resilience research focuses on the impact of multiple hazards on buildings and communities and on post-disaster studies that can provide the technical basis for improved standards, codes, and practices used in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of buildings and infrastructure systems.

Four fundamental cyber resiliency goals

The cyber resilience framework accounts for applying its concepts beyond systems and to business functions, organizations and even entire industrial sectors. The publication lays out four fundamental cyber resiliency goals: anticipate, withstand, recover, and adapt.

By implementing risk assessment, network security, data encryption, access control, incident response and recovery, employee training, vendor and third-party risk management, as well as continuous monitoring and improvement, organizations can better protect themselves against cyber threats.

Cyber security can be broken down into three main pillars: people, processes, and technology. If you understand these important components, you can use them as a road map to deliver quality IT service and cybersecurity protection. There are two ways you can think about these pillars.

You can put the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to work in your business in these five areas: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover.

What are the 5 essential elements of cyber security? ›

In conclusion, the top 5 components of a Cyber Security Awareness Program are Employee Training, Policy Development, Phishing and Social Engineering, Technical Measures and Incident Response. All these components work together to provide a comprehensive and effective defense against cyber threats.