• RuralShield AI™ Cybersecurity Readiness Assessment

    How Ready Is Your Organization for a Cyber Incident? Answer 20 questions to receive an initial cybersecurity readiness score across leadership, people, process, and technology. About 5 minutes • No technical expertise required • Immediate results

  • GOVERN — Leadership & Cybersecurity Risk
    How does your organization establish, manage, and oversee cybersecurity risk?

  • 1. Cybersecurity Responsibility: Has leadership formally assigned responsibility and accountability for managing cybersecurity risk?*
  • 2. Leadership Oversight: Does executive leadership or the governing board review cybersecurity risks, priorities, and performance on a regular basis?*
  • 3. Cybersecurity Policies: Does your organization maintain documented cybersecurity policies that are approved, communicated, and reviewed regularly?*
  • 4. Cybersecurity Risk Management: Does your organization use a documented process to identify, evaluate, prioritize, and manage cybersecurity risks?*
  • 5. Third-Party Risk: Does your organization evaluate and manage cybersecurity risks associated with vendors, service providers, cloud providers, and other third parties?*

  • IDENTIFY — Understanding What Must Be Protected
    Does your organization understand the systems, data, services, and risks that are critical to its operations?

  • 6. Critical Operations & Assets: Has your organization identified and documented the systems, data, services, and business processes that are most critical to continued operations?*
  • 7. Asset Inventory: Does your organization maintain an accurate and current inventory of devices, systems, software, cloud services, and other technology assets?*
  • 8. Risk & Vulnerability Identification: Does your organization routinely identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities, threats, and changes that could affect critical systems or operations?*

  • PROTECT — Safeguards That Reduce Cybersecurity Risk
    What safeguards are in place to reduce the likelihood and impact of a cybersecurity incident?

  • 9. Identity & Access Management: Does your organization limit access to systems and information based on job responsibilities and regularly review user access?*
  • 10. Multi-Factor Authentication: Is multi-factor authentication required for privileged accounts, remote access, email, and other critical systems where supported?*
  • 11. Security Updates & Patching: Does your organization have a defined process for applying security patches and updates within established timeframes?*
  • 12. Cybersecurity Awareness Training: Do employees receive cybersecurity awareness training when they join the organization and on a recurring basis afterward?*
  • 13. Role-Specific Training: Do employees with elevated cybersecurity responsibilities or higher-risk roles receive additional training appropriate to their responsibilities?*
  • 14. Data & System Protection: Are critical data and systems protected through appropriate safeguards such as encryption, endpoint protection, secure configurations, backups, email security, and other security controls?*

  • DETECT — Finding Cybersecurity Problems Quickly
    Can your organization recognize when suspicious or potentially malicious activity is occurring?

  • 15. Security Monitoring: Does your organization monitor critical systems, accounts, endpoints, networks, and security events for suspicious or unauthorized activity?*
  • 16. Detection & Investigation: Does your organization have a defined capability for reviewing security alerts and investigating suspicious activity to determine whether a cybersecurity incident has occurred?*

  • RESPOND — Acting When an Incident Occurs
    Is your organization prepared to take coordinated action during a cybersecurity incident?

  • 17. Incident Response Plan: Does your organization maintain a documented cybersecurity incident response plan that defines responsibilities, communication procedures, escalation requirements, and actions to take during an incident?*
  • 18. Incident Response Testing: Has your organization tested its cybersecurity incident response capabilities through a tabletop exercise, simulation, or other structured exercise within the past 12 months?*

  • RECOVER — Restoring Operations
    Can your organization restore critical operations following a cybersecurity incident?

  • 19. Business Continuity & Recovery: Does your organization maintain documented business continuity and disaster recovery plans that identify how critical systems, data, and business operations will be restored following a disruption?*
  • 20. Recovery Testing: Has your organization tested the restoration of critical systems, data, backups, or business operations within the past 12 months to verify that recovery procedures work as expected?*

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