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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

Application security


Web applications need special care and attention. This is a technology with which it is very easy to establish vulnerabilities that can be exploited easily.

Conducting a web application inventory

Understanding what web applications your organization has in its inventory is very important. Early in this chapter, we discussed the importance of developing a complete inventory so that we could better protect our environment. It will be very difficult to maintain an effective application security program without having detailed knowledge of the applications implemented throughout your organization. You should strive to answer questions such as:

  • How many total applications are in the organization?
  • What programming languages do they use?
  • What tier architecture do they use?
  • Where are they located within the enterprise infrastructure?
  • Who manages the applications?
  • What is the purpose of the applications?

Make sure that you gather as much information about the applications as you can...