Designing and Validating Assessment, Test, and Audit Strategies
When designing and developing security assessments, tests, and audits, you must consider their purpose. For example, you might want to test for vulnerabilities, assess risk management, or improve security awareness. Organizations need policies for security systems, and there are often regulatory and compliance requirements within your organization that must be followed. Testing systems is a good way to ensure these policies and regulations are being followed. Whatever your test might be for, you first need to understand the goal, so you can then work out the scope.
When planning an audit, it’s important that you work with the different departments of the organization, such as operations, marketing, information systems, sales, production, manufacturing, and so on. Each department will have different priorities that need to be assessed and might also be impacted by the testing. For example, you might need to work...
