A Dynamic and Adaptive Cybersecurity Governance Framework

Cybersecurity protects cyberspace from a wide range of cyber threats to reduce overall business risk, ensure business continuity, and maximize business opportunities and return on investments. Cybersecurity is well achieved by using appropriate sets of security governance frameworks. To this end, various Information Technology (IT) and cybersecurity governance frameworks have been reviewed along with their benefits and limitations. The major limitations of the reviewed frameworks are; they are complex and have complicated structures to implement, they are expensive and require high skill IT and security professionals. Moreover, the frameworks require many requirement checklists for implementation and auditing purposes and a lot of time and resources. To fill the limitations mentioned above, a simple, dynamic, and adaptive cybersecurity governance framework is proposed that provides security related strategic direction, ensures that security risks are managed appropriately, and ensures that organizations’ resources are utilized optimally. The framework incorporated different components not considered in the existing frameworks, such as research and development, public-private collab