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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

Define technical disasters recovery mechanisms


Now that you have developed clear requirements from your business stakeholders, it is time to begin developing the strategy that you will implement to technically reconstitute data and information systems if there were to be affected by an outage or a disaster.

Identify and document required resources

This is the point of the process where you begin to look at what your available options are based on your business user requirements and what you technically have at your disposal to properly meet your business continuity and disaster recovery requirements:

  • Based on your business user requirements, what do you need?
  • Develop a technical design that satisfies your business users' requirements.
  • Ensure that information security is maintained as part of this design and that the organization's risk posture is not reduced by the design.

Conduct a gap analysis

Now that you have developed a design for your disaster recovery approach, it is time to perform a gap...