Management Of Information Security
Management Of Information Security
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ISBN: 9781337405713
Author: WHITMAN, Michael.
Publisher: Cengage Learning,
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Chapter 1, Problem 6E
Program Plan Intro

Security policy:

  • A security policy defines an organization’s security requirements.
  • It provides controls and consents needed for meeting requirements.
  • A security policy is a well written document in an organization giving the guidelines to how to protect the organization from threats.
  • It includes computer security threats, and how to handle situations when they do occur.
  • A good security policy must identify all of a company's assets as well as all the potential threats to those assets.
  • The employees of the company need to be kept updated on the company's security policies.
  • The policies themselves should also be updated regularly.

Failure in identifying threats:

  • The failure in identification of threats is a good sign.
  • The detailed investigation of threats is required in this case.
  • The threats may be in different fields shown below:
    • Economic trends:
      • It denotes research over economy in an area.
      • The notion of economic shifts over market.
    • Market trends:
      • The change in market conditions.
      • The new upcoming trends that may hurt the company.
      • The amount of competition in market.
    • Funding changes:
      • It denotes decrease in grants annually.
      • It checks whether this decrease may hurt company’s economy.
    • Government regulations:
      • It denotes checking of any new regulations that may hurt company.
      • It may sense the kind of damage that can happen.
  • After a detailed research over identification of threats, if nothing is been found then that may denote a positive escalation.

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