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Effective Cybersecurity: A Guide to Using Best Practices and Standards
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Effective Cybersecurity: A Guide to Using Best Practices and Standards

by William Stallings
August 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
800 pages
26h 7m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Preface

There is the book, Inspector. I leave it with you, and you cannot doubt that it contains a full explanation.

The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Background

Effective cybersecurity is very difficult. A number of organizations, based on wide professional input, have developed best-practices types of documents as well as standards for implementing and evaluating cybersecurity. On the standards side, the most prominent player is the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST has created a huge number of security publications, including 9 Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) and well over 100 active Special Publications (SP) that provide guidance on virtually all aspects of cybersecurity. ...

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ISBN: 9780134772929