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Enterprise Security: A Data-Centric Approach to Securing the Enterprise

By : Aaron Woody
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Enterprise Security: A Data-Centric Approach to Securing the Enterprise

By: Aaron Woody

Overview of this book

Enterprise security redefined using a data-centric approach and trust models to transform information security into a business enablement process. It is a unique and forward thinking approach for deciding the best method to secure data in the enterprise, the cloud, and in BYOD environments."Enterprise Security: A Data-Centric Approach to Securing the Enterprise" will guide you through redefining your security architecture to be more affective and turn information security into a business enablement process rather than a roadblock. This book will provide you with the areas where security must focus to ensure end-to-end security throughout the enterprise-supporting enterprise initiatives such as cloud and BYOD. "Enterprise Security: A Data-Centric Approach to Securing the Enterprise" will first introduce the reader to a new security architecture model and then explores the must have security methods and new tools that can used to secure the enterprise.This book will take a data-centric approach to securing the enterprise through the concept of Trust Models and building a layered security implementation focused on data. This is not your traditional security book focused on point solutions and the network aspect of security. This book combines best practice methods with new methods to approach enterprise security and how to remain agile as the enterprise demands more access to data from traditionally untrusted assets, hosted solutions, and third parties. Applied Information Security - A Data-Centric Approach to Securing the Enterprise will provide the reader an easy-to-follow flow from architecture to implementation, diagrams and recommended steps, and resources for further research and solution evaluation.This book is a reference and guide for all levels of enterprise security programs that have realized that non-data centric security is no longer practical and new methods must be used to secure the most critical assets in the enterprise.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Enterprise Security: A Data-Centric Approach to Securing the Enterprise
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.packtpub.com
Preface
Applying Trust Models to Develop a Security Architectuture
Index

Appendix C. Security Tools List

The tools listed in this appendix are open source for the purposes of remaining as vendor and product agnostic as possible and to highlight excellent tools provided by the open source community. This list is not comprehensive, but consists of some well-known open source projects for their respective uses. In some cases, the open source project has been acquired by a commercial entity. This is not an endorsement of the commercial entity, but of the open source project only. There are several commercial products available for each of these areas and simple Internet searches will provide the available products and vendors. For enterprise implementation, there may be a mix of commercial and open source tools used to accomplish security goals. Tool selection should always consider the total cost of ownership, support, and effectiveness.