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Infosec Strategies and Best Practices

You're reading from Infosec Strategies and Best Practices Gain proficiency in information security using expert-level strategies and best practices

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800566354

Length 272 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Joseph MacMillan

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Information Security Risk Management and Governance

2. Chapter 1: InfoSec and Risk Management FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Protecting the Security of Assets

4. Section 2: Closing the Gap: How to Protect the Organization

5. Chapter 3: Designing Secure Information Systems

6. Chapter 4: Designing and Protecting Network Security

7. Chapter 5: Controlling Access and Managing Identity

8. Section 3: Operationalizing Information Security

9. Chapter 6: Designing and Managing Security Testing Processes

10. Chapter 7: Owning Security Operations

11. Chapter 8: Improving the Security of Software

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Identifying and classifying information assets

In your asset management policies, it's likely that you have defined the way your organization is going to identify and classify information assets based on the value, criticality, sensitivity, and legal obligations, but not specifically discussing how your organization might do that from an IT perspective.

While creating that policy and defining those motives is a huge leap forward in understanding the overall position your organization takes when it comes to their risk appetite and what is considered to be the most valuable information they have, remember that it's also just the "rule," and not the actual action of identifying and classifying those assets or protecting them for that matter.

In this section, I would like to detail the ways we can structure the rules, as well as the actual "doing" part of an effective identification and classification phase of an ISMS.

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Authors (1)

MacMillan

MacMillan

Joseph MacMillan is a technological utopian and cybersecurity junkie, currently living in Amsterdam. Employed by Microsoft as a Global Black Belt for Cybersecurity, Joseph uses his experience in senior information security roles to transform businesses into secure organizations rooted in risk management principles to drive decision making. Much of Joseph's work has been focused on enabling businesses to achieve their goals by removing the ambiguity surrounding risk, which enables the CEO and C-Suite to plan and achieve their goals in a secure manner with confidence. Joseph holds various certifications, including the CISSP, CCSP, CISA, CSSLP, AlienVault Certified Engineer, and ISO 27001 Certified ISMS Lead Auditor.

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