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Building a Security Program from Scratch

You don’t need everything at once. This roadmap sequences the highest-impact steps for a first real security program.

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Days 1–30: Understand and govern

  • Inventory assets, data and vendors.
  • Assign ownership and a security policy.
  • Do a quick risk assessment to find the top risks.

Days 31–60: Close the biggest gaps

  • MFA everywhere; least-privilege access.
  • Patching, backups and logging.
  • Basic incident-response plan.

Days 61–90: Prove and improve

  • Run a penetration test.
  • Security-awareness training.
  • Pick a framework (ISO 27001/SOC 2) to formalise.

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