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Inside Network Security Assessment. Guarding your IT Infrastructure Authors: Gregg M., Kim D. Published year: 2003 Pages: 1/138 |
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- Inside Network Security Assessment: Guarding your IT Infrastructure
- Inside Network Security Assessment: Guarding your IT Infrastructure
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You
- Reader Services
- Introduction
- Who Should Read This Book
- Why We Created This Book
- Overview of the Book s Contents
- Conventions Used in This Book
- 1. Introduction to Assessing Network Vulnerabilities
- What Security Is and Isn t
- Process for Assessing Risk
- Four Ways in Which You Can Respond to Risk
- Network Vulnerability Assessment
- Summary
- Key Terms
- 2. Foundations and Principles of Security
- Basic Security Principles
- Security Requires Information Classification
- The Policy Framework
- The Role Authentication, Authorization, and Accountability Play in a Secure Organization
- Encryption
- Security and the Employee (Social Engineering)
- Summary
- Key Terms
- 3. Why Risk Assessment
- Risk Terminology
- Laws, Mandates, and Regulations
- Risk Assessment Best Practices
- Understanding the IT Security Process
- The Goals and Objectives of a Risk Assessment
- Summary
- Key Terms
- 4. Risk-Assessment Methodologies
- Risk-Assessment Terminology
- Quantitative and Qualitative Risk-Assessment Approaches
- Best Practices for Quantitative and Qualitative Risk Assessment
- Choosing the Best Risk-Assessment Approach
- Common Risk-Assessment Methodologies and Templates
- Summary
- Key Terms
- 5. Scoping the Project
- Defining the Scope of the Assessment
- Reviewing Critical Systems and Information
- Compiling the Needed Documentation
- Making Sure You Are Ready to Begin
- Summary
- Key Terms
- 6. Understanding the Attacker
- Who Are the Attackers?
- What Do Attackers Do?
- Reducing the Risk of an Attack
- How to Respond to an Attack
- Summary
- Key Terms
- 7. Performing the Assessment
- Introducing the Assessment Process
- Level I Assessments
- Level II Assessments
- Level III Assessments
- Summary
- Key Terms
- 8. Tools Used for Assessments and Evaluations
- A Brief History of Security Tools
- Putting Together a Toolkit
- Determining What Tools to Use
- Summary
- Key Terms
- 9. Preparing the Final Report
- Preparing for Analysis
- Ranking Your Findings
- Building the Final Report
- Contents of a Good Report
- Determining the Next Step
- Audit and Compliance
- Summary
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