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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

Security control implementation


Security control implementation is where the rubber meets the road for all of the effort that has been conducted regarding information categorization and security control selection with business and IT users. Security control implementation must be carefully planned and communicated with the project team that is implementing the new information system, ensuring that no information security control is left unimplemented.

Now that we are at the point in the system development life cycle where we are working to develop the information system, we must ensure that the project's scope includes the security control implementation as part of the overall project scope. While the information security professional will play an important role in the implementation of the security controls, this will be a team effort. Security controls must be assigned to the appropriate IT team member to ensure that that the correct subject matter expert is involved.

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