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Infosec Strategies and Best Practices. Gain proficiency in information security using expert-level strategies and best practices

Infosec Strategies and Best Practices. Gain proficiency in information security using expert-level strategies and best practices

Joseph MacMillan

Ebook
Information security and risk management best practices enable professionals to plan, implement, measure, and test their organization's systems and ensure that they're adequately protected against threats.
The book starts by helping you to understand the core principles of information security, why risk management is important, and how you can drive information security governance. You'll then explore methods for implementing security controls to achieve the organization's information security goals. As you make progress, you'll get to grips with design principles that can be utilized along with methods to assess and mitigate architectural vulnerabilities. The book will also help you to discover best practices for designing secure network architectures and controlling and managing third-party identity services. Finally, you will learn about designing and managing security testing processes, along with ways in which you can improve software security.
By the end of this infosec book, you'll have learned how to make your organization less vulnerable to threats and reduce the likelihood and impact of exploitation. As a result, you will be able to make an impactful change in your organization toward a higher level of information security.
  • 1. InfoSec and Risk Management
  • 2. Protecting the Security of Assets
  • 3. Designing Secure Information Systems
  • 4. Designing and Protecting Network Security
  • 5. Controlling Access and Managing Identity
  • 6. Designing and Managing Security Testing Processes
  • 7. Owning Security Operations
  • 8. Improving the Security of Software
  • Title: Infosec Strategies and Best Practices. Gain proficiency in information security using expert-level strategies and best practices
  • Author: Joseph MacMillan
  • Original title: Infosec Strategies and Best Practices. Gain proficiency in information security using expert-level strategies and best practices
  • ISBN: 9781800563643, 9781800563643
  • Date of issue: 2021-05-21
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_2a46
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing