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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

Chapter 9. Developing a Security Operations Center

The security operations center (SOC) serves as your centralized view into your overall enterprise organization infrastructure and individual information systems. The security operations center's goal is to ensure that this view is as real time as possible so that your organization can identify and respond to internal and external threats as quickly as possible, helping to ensure the continued confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your organization's information systems.

Think of the SOC as the technological equivariant of the physical security controls implemented by your organization.

In this chapter, we will be discussing:

  • The responsibilities of the security operations center
  • Security operations center tool management
  • Security operations center tool design
  • Security operations center roles
  • Security operations center processes and procedures
  • Internal versus outsourced security operations center

From the physical security world, you have...