RIA updates cybersecurity recommendations for top managers

03.11.2023 | 20:18

The Information System Authority (RIA) has published an updated set of more than eleven recommendations for top managers to help their companies and institutions ensure cybersecurity.

You can read more about all the recommendations on our website in Estonian, English, and Russian. In short:

  • Recruit a head of information security and guarantee their autonomy
  • Follow the Information Security Standard
  • Plan resources for information security
  • Test the security of your services and systems regularly
  • Use the cyber test to improve the cyber hygiene of your establishment
  • Invest in network protection and monitoring
  • Require critical logs to be kept
  • Encrypt data exchange
  • Require reporting of security breaches and incidents to CERT-EE
  • Make sure you have a crisis plan in place and practice it regularly
  • Check out the short guide of the RIA about cyber security for businesses

In addition, the RIA recommends that public authorities use a secure public network.

ARNO PÕDER

Press Officer

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