Prevention Is Better Than Prosecution: Deepening the defence against cyber crime

This document presents a business case for establishing an information security program. It outlines the background, value, scope, and components of the program. The program aims to safeguard corporate information assets, establish security standards, comply with regulations, and align IT services with business needs. It involves categorizing data, determining risk appetite, analyzing business impacts, developing a security strategy and plans, and implementing controls. The goal is to effectively manage risks and threats, drive process maturity over time, and provide continuous improvements.

This document discusses information security policies and provides an overview of key topics: 1) It outlines a framework for designing security policies including commitment, risk assessment, and risk mitigation. 2) Risk assessment involves analyzing business, physical, technological, and human risks while risk mitigation uses administrative, physical, and technical controls. 3) The document also provides an example security policy for email at SandZ Technologies and discusses implementing policies through training, awareness programs, and audits.

This document provides guidance on organizing security functions within an organization. It discusses establishing security documentation, organizing the security function, and information security practices. The key points are: 1. Security documentation is organized into three tiers - policy, operational standards, and technical documentation - to provide requirements and guidance. Responsibilities for developing and approving documentation are outlined. 2. The security function should be organized to provide overall planning, coordination, and evaluation of physical, personnel, and IT security. A departmental security officer should coordinate the security program. 3. Information security practices include classifying information, designating personal or sensitive data, and applying minimum safeguards based on the potential harm from compromise or disclosure.

The document discusses several key aspects of developing an effective business information security policy, including: 1) Upholding the principles of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. 2) Applying the principle of least privilege and data provenance. 3) Creating a policy that is easily understood, reviewed over time, and supports proper risk management and regulatory compliance. 4) Evaluating how the policy may impact other security programs and processes like risk assessment, auditing, training, and culture.

Information security is often misunderstood, undervalued and often tackled as an afterthought. This presentation was given in 2014 during an ISACA educational event.

This document provides an overview and introduction to Microsoft's Security Risk Management Guide. It discusses the challenges of managing security risks in today's environment and introduces a four-phase security risk management process developed by Microsoft. The process uses both qualitative and quantitative risk assessment methods to identify, analyze, and prioritize security risks. It then provides frameworks for making risk management decisions and measuring the effectiveness of security controls. The guide is intended to help organizations of all sizes establish a formal security risk management program to proactively manage risks in a cost-effective manner.

This document discusses the information security life cycle, which includes 6 steps: 1) security planning, 2) security analysis, 3) security design, 4) security implementation, 5) security review, and 6) continual security. It focuses on the first two steps of security planning and security analysis. For security planning, it covers asset definition, security policy, security objectives, and security scope. For security analysis, it describes the key activities of asset analysis, impact analysis, threat analysis, exposure analysis, vulnerability analysis, analyzing existing security controls, and risk analysis to define security requirements.

Cybersecurity risks must be addressed at the executive level through an enterprise-wide risk management framework. While cybersecurity has traditionally been viewed as a technical issue managed by IT, it is critical that top management be fully engaged in cybersecurity risk governance to ensure proper protection is incorporated as a business goal. There are various models for integrating cybersecurity management into risk management structures, with the most effective approach ensuring board visibility, balanced governance of both IT and non-IT risks, and authority across the organization to enforce protocols.

The development and deployment of an enterprise Security Policy that defines the what and how of enterprise security is now mandated by numerous regulatory and industry standards, such as HIPAA and PCI-DSS. The development of a Security Policy, however, generally takes specialized skills that most organizations do not have. As a result, the process either takes a significant amount of time, or a significant amount of money. Info-Tech’s Security Policy Solution Set will help you: •Understand what goes into a Security Policy and why. •Determine which specific policies are required by your organization. •Streamline the creation of a policy set via customizable standards-based templates. •Implement policies in an order that makes sense. •Understand policy enforcement. Use this material to build the Policies you need to be protected and compliant without spending a penny.

The document discusses developing effective information security policies through a multi-step process. It begins with defining different types of policies like enterprise, issue-specific, and systems-specific policies. It then outlines the key phases to developing policies which include investigation, analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance. Specific guidance is provided for each phase, such as conducting a risk assessment in investigation and specifying enforcement in design. Effective policy development requires planning, funding, participation from stakeholders, and periodic reviews.

This document provides guidance on writing an effective network security policy. It explains that writing security policies is challenging and requires understanding what should be included and who is responsible. The author developed a Network Security Policy Manual (NSPM) based on standards from ISF and ISO to provide an example. When writing policies, it is important to transform standard language into enforceable policy statements, avoid defining specific technologies, and ensure all sections work together cohesively. Maintaining and updating the security policy is crucial to protecting organizational assets and data.

This document outlines the business case for enterprise continuity planning. It discusses establishing strategic, financial, and organizational drivers to account for changes and ensure business viability. The scope section covers determining risk appetite, conducting a business impact analysis to identify critical departments, analyzing threats, and developing continuity requirements, strategies, and plans. It emphasizes developing a continuous improvement process to foster resilience.

This document discusses information security policies and standards, outlining the challenges in defining, measuring compliance with, reporting violations of, and correcting violations to conform with policies. It describes policies as high-level guidance and standards as specific technical requirements. The foundation of information security is establishing a framework of policies to provide management direction for decisions across the enterprise through clearly defined security goals.

Security Risk Management: ovvero come mitigare e gestire i rischi dei dati attraverso i servizi gestiti. - by Hitachi Systems - festival ICT 2015 Relatore: Denis Cassinerio Security Business Unit Director di Hitachi Systems CBT

Risk Management Strategy is an approach to dealing with global risks focused to anticipate the events, designing and implementing procedures to minimize the occurrence of the event or its impact if it occurs. In era of globalization and interconnected world the task to protect the company from global risks became complicated. Any kind of internally or externally risk can cause distortion to its usual business activities. The source of potential risk can be human being, technology failure, sabotage or Mother Nature. All the risks must be considered individually since they overlap to a large degree. Then our Global Risk Management consulting focuses on: terrorism, internal sabotage, external espionage, technology failure.

Organizations are struggling to keep up with today’s evolving threat landscape. From technology sophistication and business adoption to the proliferation of hacking techniques and the expansion of hacking motivations, organizations are facing major security risks. Every organization needs some kind of information security program to protect their systems and assets. Organizations today face pressure from regulatory or legal obligations, customer requirement, and now, senior management expectations.

John Whited, Principal Engineer, Raytheon Software Assurance Software Assurance (SwA) is also known by many other names -- application security, software security, secure application development, and others. The numbers vary from study to study, but a vast majority of cyber-attacks at least involve an element of attack on one or more software applications. Fundamentally, SwA provides a level of confidence that software is free from vulnerabilities, either intentionally designed into the software or accidentally inserted at any time during its lifecycle, and that the software functions in the intended manner. SwA is a development lifecycle endeavor requiring the participation of many disciplines. This presentation will explore some of the best practices in secure software development across its lifecycle.

Cyber security involves protecting computers, networks, programs and data from unauthorized access and cyber attacks. It includes communication security, network security and information security to safeguard organizational assets. Cyber crimes are illegal activities that use digital technologies and networks, and include hacking, data and system interference, fraud, and illegal device usage. Some early forms of cyber crime date back to the 1970s. Maintaining antivirus software, firewalls, backups and strong passwords can help protect against cyber threats while being mindful of privacy and security settings online. The document provides an overview of cyber security, cyber crimes, their history and basic safety recommendations.