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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

Helping to guarantee success


Following are some guiding principles that you should use to help ensure that your information security program plan is well accepted by your organization.

Business alignment

A key success factor for a modern information security program is business alignment. I hope that you have noticed that I keep discussing this concept throughout the book. This is because it is so incredibly important for your success. An information security program that is well aligned with your business needs will be presenting solutions that the business wants in a way that the business understands. This is attained through careful interactions with your business users and ensuring that you follow the rule that you have one mouth and two ears so ensure that you listen twice as much as you speak. To help you better ensure business alignment:

  • Collaborate with your business users often regarding information security topics that affect them
  • Embed information security in the business decision...