Assessment of Iscte's cybersecurity capabilities

• Autor(a) principal: Faria, João Miguel Jorge Manuelito
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/28323
• topic: Cybersecurity; Assessment; Governance; Compliance; Cibersegurança; Avaliação -- Evaluation; Administração; Conformidade

As the world moves toward a more digitalised environment, cybersecurity is increasingly crucial for every organization's success. Furthermore, there has been an increase to the number of cyber-attacks. For this reason, legislation was created to mitigate these issues and to raise cybersecurity levels. Frameworks have been created to increase this level as to comply with legislations. However, for most organizations it is difficult to assess their cybersecurity capabilities and to know where to improve. To address this problem, this dissertation aims to answer the research question “Is it possible to design a system to facilitate Cybersecurity Capabilities Assessment?” by developing a system to enable organizations to self-assess their cybersecurity capabilities with ease. The proposed solution allows cybersecurity supervisors to distribute answering responsibilities between other organization members, reaching better interpretations. This facilitates an easy and timely response, allowing the organization to correctly assess their current capabilities. Applying the questionnaire and the system proposed a more assertive assessment can be achieved.