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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

Information security architecture and SDLC/SELC


To establish a successful security architecture program, it is extremely important to ensure that you are well integrated into your organizational systems development/engineering life cycle.

The SDLC/SELC lifecycle is used to ensure consistently repeatable processes as part of an engineering and/or development project. The information security architect must ensure that these life cycles are integrated into these repeatable processes and that they are working with the IT and development engineering and developer teams. The organization uses the processes that make up the SDLC/SELC to improve predictability and quality as part of the engineering or development process. The SDLC/SELC process combined with strong participation from the information security will help to ensure a well-designed system that has security built in to it from project initiation.

A typical SELC/SDLC process contains the following phases:

  1. Initiation phase: During the initiation...