Book Image

Information Security Handbook

By : Darren Death
Book Image

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

Identification – incident response tools


We utilize people, processes, and technical tools to implement the identification phase of the incident response process, which includes detection and analysis.

Observational (OODA) technical tools

These types of tools allow the incident responder to have visibility into the network, allowing them to establish a baseline for what it normally looks like, and to easily visualize when anomalous behavior is occurring. Observational technical tools include:

  • Host and network-based intrusion prevention and intrusion detection systems (IPS/IDS): These tools are put in place to perform real-time monitoring of your network and server/workstation activity. These tools are typically signature-based and look for suspicious activity that matches a preconfigured signature. If a condition matches a signature the tool will either block (IPS) or alert (IDS). The open source tool examples are as follows: