Combatting Cyber Terrorism - A guide to understanding the cyber threat landscape and incident response planning

CHAPTER 5: SECURITY PLANNING AND INCIDENT RESPONSE

5.1 Security planning

One of the ‘stand out’ lessons in attempting to prevent cyber terrorism, or respond effectively to suspected security incidents, is dealing with the event’s multifaceted complexity. For the scenario will undoubtedly test your organisation’s skills in dealing with converged security dilemmas at their most complicated. By using the phrase ‘security convergence’, we understand the requirement to consider and bring together in harmony two distinct security functions: namely, physical security and information security within enterprises. According to the US’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), security convergence is the “formal collaboration between previously ...