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Assessing Information Security: Strategies, tactics, logic and framework
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Assessing Information Security: Strategies, tactics, logic and framework

by Andrew Vladimirov, Konstantin Gavrilenko, Andriej Michajlowski
January 2015
Beginner
424 pages
8h 49m
English
IT Governance Publishing
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CHAPTER 5: SECURITY AUDIT STRATEGIES AND TACTICS

In military operations, what is valued is foiling the opponent’s strategy, not pitched battle’. – Wang Xi.

The previous chapters put heavy emphasis on governance, management and policy issues in relation to assessing information security. They are also heavily centred on the issues of strategic significance. It is time to pull up your sleeves and dive into the realm of tactics. Inevitably, this means that the upcoming discourse will have to be more technically inclined. As stated in this book’s preface, however, providing detailed checklists or hands-on testing manuals is not the intended goal. We are not competing with, for example, OSSTMM (Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual), not ...

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ISBN: 9781849286008