Inside Network Security Assessment: Guarding Your IT Infrastructure

IT Security Architecture and Framework

An IT security architecture and framework is a term used to describe an organization’s documented information security policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines. Many organizations, after conducting their first risk and vulnerability assessment, come to the immediate realization that they have put little or no effort into the overall security design of the IT infrastructure and its assets. Many organizations still do not have written information security policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines. This can be a frightening realization because the results of a risk and vulnerability assessment project typically are used as the basis for the organization’s follow-up business continuity and disaster ...