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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

Developing a security architecture advisement program


A well-defined security architecture advisement program will help to ensure that your information security program can provide reliable, high-quality, and repeatable guidance for your business and project stakeholders as it relates to supporting the development of information systems within your organization.

Partnering with your business stakeholders

To be successful, your architecture program must provide value to your business and project stakeholders and must not be an impediment to the project's success. A key component to ensuring success is to build in customer service as a guiding principle of your architecture program:

  • Ensure that you have well-developed policies, procedures, and guidance to support your business and project stakeholders:
    • Develop policies that enforce the requirement for information security architecture and the need to request resources from the information security program for architectural guidance
    • Develop repeatable...