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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

About the Reviewers

Lee Allen is currently the Vulnerability Management Program Lead for one of the Fortune 500 companies. He is also the owner of MiDGames.com that is dedicated to bridging the gap between learning and fun, by providing 3D video games that reinforce and teach complex subjects such as Linux command line and penetration testing skills.

Lee is the author of Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide, Packt Publishing.

Shon Robinson has been working in IT for 17 years, with 15 of these spent dealing with various aspects of the security field. Over the years, he has worked for a large financial services company in a number of roles including securing the online banking platform and performing application vulnerability assessments across all lines of business applications. Currently, he is a Principal Consultant for a business security company. He has also been a reviewer for Hakin9 since its first issues.

In addition to an MBA and Master of Theological Studies, Shon currently holds a number of active certifications including CISSP, ISSAP, ISSMP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CEH, and a number of others on security, application, and operating systems.

In his copious free time, Shon tries to help teach the Central Ohio ISSA CISSP prep class.