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Information Security Handbook

By : Darren Death
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Information Security Handbook

By: Darren Death

Overview of this book

Having an information security mechanism is one of the most crucial factors for any organization. Important assets of organization demand a proper risk management and threat model for security, and so information security concepts are gaining a lot of traction. This book starts with the concept of information security and shows you why it’s important. It then moves on to modules such as threat modeling, risk management, and mitigation. It also covers the concepts of incident response systems, information rights management, and more. Moving on, it guides you to build your own information security framework as the best fit for your organization. Toward the end, you’ll discover some best practices that can be implemented to make your security framework strong. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with all the factors involved in information security, which will help you build a security framework that is a perfect fit your organization’s requirements.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Cloud computing characteristics


  • Rapid elasticity: Cloud computing resources can be elastically provisioned and released. They can be scaled in the following ways:
    • Manual scaling: This is where the organization's operations team anticipates future workloads in the cloud environment and adds resources manually to support the organization's mission.
    • Semi-automated scaling: This type of scaling still requires forecasting to ensure that resources exist and are built to support an organization's information system. Based on system events, new services, such as virtual servers to take the application's load, will be initialized.
    • Fully-automated (elastic) scaling: This type of scaling allows an organization to increase or reduce capacity without the need to perform the manual labor and configuration necessary to establish the infrastructure ahead of time.

The organization has the capability of controlling the elasticity of the system so that the system does not grow out of control, causing a great...