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Infosec Strategies and Best Practices

By : Joseph MacMillan
Book Image

Infosec Strategies and Best Practices

By: Joseph MacMillan

Overview of this book

Information security and risk management best practices enable professionals to plan, implement, measure, and test their organization's systems and ensure that they're adequately protected against threats. The book starts by helping you to understand the core principles of information security, why risk management is important, and how you can drive information security governance. You'll then explore methods for implementing security controls to achieve the organization's information security goals. As you make progress, you'll get to grips with design principles that can be utilized along with methods to assess and mitigate architectural vulnerabilities. The book will also help you to discover best practices for designing secure network architectures and controlling and managing third-party identity services. Finally, you will learn about designing and managing security testing processes, along with ways in which you can improve software security. By the end of this infosec book, you'll have learned how to make your organization less vulnerable to threats and reduce the likelihood and impact of exploitation. As a result, you will be able to make an impactful change in your organization toward a higher level of information security.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Section 1: Information Security Risk Management and Governance
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Section 2: Closing the Gap: How to Protect the Organization
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Section 3: Operationalizing Information Security

Summary

In this chapter, we covered the highly interesting topic of improving the security of software and highlighted various methodologies we could use to ensure the software used inside our organization's estate is "secure enough" from a risk perspective.

To begin the chapter, we went into a few universal paradigms for software security, including the SDLC, and the steps required for that process to be an effective undertaking.

After that, we highlighted that we put a lot of faith into software systems developed by third parties, especially when the processes under which they are developed are opaque, such as when we procure software from a vendor that doesn't disclose their approach when it comes to security. We delved into how we might better understand the risk presented by third-party software, either as proprietary solutions or in the context of the open source model.

From that, we went into how we can utilize our knowledge of the SDLC to produce...