6. Prepare your Systems & Key Components

Managing your systems and key components is a cornerstone of an effective cybersecurity framework. Properly documenting, categorizing, and understanding your systems ensures they align with organisational goals and comply with security and regulatory requirements. This section provides practical steps to define your system settings, identify stakeholders, and document the critical details of your systems.

📄️ 1. System Classification

In CSFaaS, systems are understood from an architectural perspective. They represent any component that supports the organisation in achieving its business goals and objectives. By default, CSFaaS provides the following predefined Architectural Domains:

📄️ 2. System Management Interface Overview

Systems cards

📄️ 3. Create a System

Identifying and documenting your systems is critical for ensuring security alignment and effective risk management. CSFaaS provides practical tools to capture system information, define attributes, and manage relationships.

📄️ 4. Document the system

Introduction

📄️ 5. Edit, Update or Delete your Systems

Editing a System

📄️ 6. Advanced Search with Multiple Filtering Options

The System management interface includes advanced filtering options for refined searches. Follow these steps to apply specific filters:

📄️ 7. Define & Tailor your Systems settings

To create a structured and tailored approach to system management, CSFaaS allows you to customise key catalogues. These editable catalogues enable you to align system attributes, classifications, and workflows with your organisation’s unique needs, providing a strong foundation for effective system management.

📄️ 8. Examples

For a cloud-hosted CRM platform, you would indicate the following: