Cyber security standards

stakeholders have the responsibility to guard the brand, net profits and upcoming revenue from unpredicted financial exposure. Fiduciary stakeholders have a responsibility to guarantee reasonable care is taken to accomplish the nature and level of cyber exposure faced by the organization and its customers. Exposure management stakeholders have the responsibility to detect and manage risks and liabilities to an adequate level based on the tolerances expressed by the fiduciary stakeholders. In…

Human Dimensional Impacts upon Information Security Infrastructure William Fisher University of Maryland University College CSEC610 Cyberspace and Cybersecurity Professor Hall Abstract Evaluating the vulnerabilities of an organization’s information security starts with the risk assessment. The process includes the method performed and current protocols to both measure the risk involved and address attacks. Typically, businesses will have a network tailored to their particular needs balancing…

deficiencies are identified; and provides independent assurance for compliance with security policies. Security tests are necessary to identify control deficiencies. An effective testing plan identifies the key controls, then tests those controls at a frequency based on the risk that the control is not functioning. Security testing should include independent tests conducted by personnel without direct responsibility for security administration. Adverse test results indicate a control is not…

brief overview of the evolution IT services from that of a single-tenant to a multi-tenant model. For it is in this evolution that can be found the genesis of the challenges facing digital forensics due to the fact that forensics procedures and standards have been developed to apply to a physical (single-tenant) rather than a virtual (multi-tenant) IT service-provision environment. Ultimately, the provision of IT services requires elements of data storage, data exchange and transfer (data in…

regarding the subject of critical infrastructure protection. The document identified sections of the National Infrastructure as essential to the well-being and security of the United States. Also, the contents looked into the safety and interests of citizens and the necessary procedures to apply. President Bush updated the paper using the Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-7) of December 2003. He renamed the program as Critical Infrastructure Identification, Prioritization, and…

for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems A Security Life Cycle Approach JOINT TASK FORCE TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVE INFORMATION SECURITY Computer Security Division Information Technology Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8930 February 2010 U.S. Department of Commerce Gary Locke, Secretary National Institute of Standards and Technology Patrick D. Gallagher, Director Special Publication…

Introduction Cyber attacks have been more sophisticated since the information available through social media like facebook, twitter and many more adding to internet world to share and be connected to world. People have been communicated over phone or internet comparing to past decade. China, USA, India are the top three users of internet as per statistics. Over half of the population of the world will have smartphones by the end of year 2018. When looking at the statistics above it is obvious…

Information security has arguably been around for centuries. Around the fifth century BC, the time of Herodotus, information was secured by shaving the head of a slave, tattooing a message, and before the slave was given orders to deliver the message, the hair was allowed to grow back, thus concealing the message and having rudimentary information security (Patterson, 2010). This ancient method of protecting information is highlighted to articulate information security methods are in need of…

policies and procedures something that sit on a shelf until the auditors and/or regulators ask to see them? Have they become akin to "Shelfware"? As I write this, my colleagues and I are very busy assisting companies with assessing risks, recommending security posture and well yeah, auditing IT controls too. So what about policies and procedures? Where do they fit? Are they anything more than the product of “give the auditors what they want”? When was the last time or better yet, have you…

iv. Taxation Taxation is one of the methods that many economists support because of its supposed efficiency. Under this method of pollution regulation, a tax rate is set for each standard unit of pollution that is equal to the social cost that pollution creates on society. The firm then has a choice of whether to pay the tax or seek methods to abate pollution. This method provides the firm with the freedom to compare the potential tax with the cost of abatement and reductions in output to allow…