Information Security Fundamentals, 2nd Edition

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you may call on later to help support your protection recommendations, but these

diagrams will also be very valuable to you later when you need to establish other

key CoOP artifacts such as use cases, testing scenarios, risk/probability ratings for

specific threats, etc. Patience, persistence, strong written and verbal communica-

tion skills, and documenting complex tasks to a fine level of detail will require core

competencies that you must demonstrate throughout the entire process. is time

and effort investment will pay huge dividends to you professionally well beyond the

scope of the CoOP project. Your value to the organization will increase dramati-

cally as you demonstrate to senior management your ...