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Enterprise Security: A Data-Centric Approach to Securing the Enterprise

By : Aaron Woody
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Enterprise Security: A Data-Centric Approach to Securing the Enterprise

By: Aaron Woody

Overview of this book

Enterprise security redefined using a data-centric approach and trust models to transform information security into a business enablement process. It is a unique and forward thinking approach for deciding the best method to secure data in the enterprise, the cloud, and in BYOD environments."Enterprise Security: A Data-Centric Approach to Securing the Enterprise" will guide you through redefining your security architecture to be more affective and turn information security into a business enablement process rather than a roadblock. This book will provide you with the areas where security must focus to ensure end-to-end security throughout the enterprise-supporting enterprise initiatives such as cloud and BYOD. "Enterprise Security: A Data-Centric Approach to Securing the Enterprise" will first introduce the reader to a new security architecture model and then explores the must have security methods and new tools that can used to secure the enterprise.This book will take a data-centric approach to securing the enterprise through the concept of Trust Models and building a layered security implementation focused on data. This is not your traditional security book focused on point solutions and the network aspect of security. This book combines best practice methods with new methods to approach enterprise security and how to remain agile as the enterprise demands more access to data from traditionally untrusted assets, hosted solutions, and third parties. Applied Information Security - A Data-Centric Approach to Securing the Enterprise will provide the reader an easy-to-follow flow from architecture to implementation, diagrams and recommended steps, and resources for further research and solution evaluation.This book is a reference and guide for all levels of enterprise security programs that have realized that non-data centric security is no longer practical and new methods must be used to secure the most critical assets in the enterprise.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Enterprise Security: A Data-Centric Approach to Securing the Enterprise
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.packtpub.com
Preface
Applying Trust Models to Develop a Security Architectuture
Index

Security and wireless networks


The nature of wireless networks extending access to the internal network beyond the physical boundaries of the enterprise introduces complexities in properly securing access. In the standard internal network implementation, physical access is required to cable into the network in order to gain access to enterprise resources; to date this has been the method of ensuring trust for hosts connecting. Though this is not well-evaluated logic, the same rationale has been generally applied to wireless networks. Because wireless networks allow a level of anonymity for connecting hosts, a degree of trust must be established for connecting hosts and the infrastructure providing the wireless access.

In order to provide security through obscurity, methods such as hidden SSIDs and MAC address filtering have been employed to keep the wireless network invisible to eavesdroppers and more difficult to connect to for an unknown host. Unfortunately, these methods fail due to...