March 2022
Intermediate to advanced
369 pages
7h 43m
English
book
IT Security Controls: A Guide to Corporate Standards and Frameworks
by Virgilio Viegas, Oben Kuyucu
Overview
Use this reference for IT security practitioners to get an overview of the major standards and frameworks, and a proposed architecture to meet them. The book identifies and describes the necessary controls and processes that must be implemented in order to secure your organization's infrastructure.
The book proposes a comprehensive approach to the implementation of IT security controls with an easily understandable graphic implementation proposal to comply with the most relevant market standards (ISO 27001, NIST, PCI-DSS, and COBIT) and a significant number of regulatory frameworks from central banks across the World (European Union, Switzerland, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, etc.).
To connect the book with the real world, a number of well-known case studies are featured to explain what went wrong with the biggest hacks of the decade, and which controls should have been in place to prevent them. The book also describes a set of well-knownsecurity tools available to support you.
What You Will Learn
- Understand corporate IT security controls, including governance, policies, procedures, and security awareness
- Know cybersecurity and risk assessment techniques such as penetration testing, red teaming, compliance scans, firewall assurance, and vulnerability scans
- Understand technical IT security controls for unmanaged and managed devices, and perimeter controls
- Implement security testing tools such as steganography, vulnerability scanners, session hijacking, intrusion detection, and more
Who This Book Is For
IT security managers, chief information security officers, information security practitioners, and IT auditors will use the book as a reference and support guide to conduct gap analyses and audits of their organizations’ IT security controls implementations.Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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