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Enemy at the Water Cooler
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Enemy at the Water Cooler

by Brian T Contos
October 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
5h 47m
English
Syngress
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Chapter 3. Enterprise Security Management (ESM)

 

“The big lie of computer security is that security improves by imposing complex passwords on users. In real life, people write down anything they can’t remember. Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave.”

 
 --Jakob Nielsen

ESM in a Nutshell

There is no piece of technology that once deployed will solve all of an organization’s security problems. Security encompasses people, process, and technology. By finding the right combination of these, an organization can successfully reduce risk.

One key piece of technology needed to address security risk is a central logging and analysis solution that leverages the investment that has already been made in the organization’s technology ...

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ISBN: 9781597491297