Fundamentals of Information Systems Security, 4th Edition

The Importance of Countermeasures

There are no simple measures to protect an organization from computer attacks. You must focus on countermeasures and implement security controls that can help mitigate the risk caused by threats and vulnerabilities. Detecting vulnerabilities, preventing attacks and threats from occurring, responding to the effects of successful attacks, and responding to security-related incidents can be daunting, but it is better than the alternative. Dealing with computer and network attacks is a cost of doing business in today’s digital and Internet-connected world.

Although smart attackers and intruders continue to invent new methods of attacking computer and network resources, many are well known and can be defeated with ...