SECURITY BENCHMARKING, BEST PRACTICE AND STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT 
David Clarke 
Vciso
David Clarke 
• Created CERT on a Financial Intranet trading $3.5 
Trillion a day ,CPNI Member 10 Years. 
• Managed Global Managed Security Services with a 
$100-$300 million Global install base 500 + Customers 
with $3.4 Billion dollar Contracts. 
• Created , maintained and improved regulatory and 
compliance commitments including Global PCI-DSS, 
ISO 27001 (10,000+ Security Devices/Systems ).
• Breach Legislation, IT or Legal? 
• " the proposed regulation of up to 5% of 
annual worldwide turnover, or €100"
• Information Sharing , Who,When, How 
• "The ICO has imposed a monetary penalty 
of £200000 on the British Pregnancy 
Advice Service (BPAS) for exposing 
thousands of personal"
• Compliance is the best protection? 
• "Resistance is futile" Gartner 
• "Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS 
Trust fined £325k after hard drives with highly-sensitive 
patient data were sold on eBay, - "
• Best Practice or is this Compliance ? 
• "The ICO can issue fines of up to 
£500,000 for serious breaches of the Data 
Protection Act and Privacy and Electronic 
Communications Regulations." ICO
• Incident Response,Strategy 
• "There are two kinds of big companies in the 
U.S. Those who’ve been hacked by the Chinese 
and those who don’t know they’ve been hacked.” 
FBI
4 Threats 
• Internal Threat 
• External Threat 
• Regulatory Threat 
• The Threat of “inadvertent human 
error”
Appendix
ISO 20000 
Change Process 
Service Introduction 
Problem management 
Escalation Processe
Security Measurement 
• Measure of Compliance 
• Measure of System effectiveness 
• Measure of People Awareness 
• Measuremnet of main Threat Vector
72 Hours to Report 
% 5% of Worldwide 
Revenue 
71
Cyber Essentials 
Boundary Control 
Secure Configuration 
Patch Managment 
Malware Defense 
Access Control
Each Event is 0.25 80% achievable =0.2 The Maths 
Dependent Events 
0.2+0.2+.2+.2=0.8 
Previously 0.32 
A Dramatic improvement by 
using a Leveraged Strategy
Probably? Independent Events 
0.8x 0.8x0.8x0.8=0.41
"Inadvertent 
human error 
Inadvertent 
human error 
Hacker 
95% Human Error 
19:1 Leverage to Hackers
Incidents 
• Escalation Procedure 
• Alerting Procedure 
• Password Managment
Real Time Incident 
1.2 13% 
Escalation Management 
Judgement Calls 
Staff 
Working with Outsourcers 
Identifying Risk/Direction 
Legal 
Presenting The Down Side 
Define Purpose 
Incident End 
Mitigation Techniques 
Information Control 
Post Analysis 
Stakeholders 
Prerequisites 
0.14 
0.12 
0.1 
0.08 
0.06 
0.04 
0.02 
0 
1 
0.8 
0.6 
0.4 
0.2 
0 
12% 
11% 11% 
9% 9% 
8% 
6% 
4% 4% 
3% 3% 3% 
2% 
13% 
26% 
37% 
48% 
57% 
66% 
73% 79% 83% 88% 91% 94% 98% 100%
Incident Phases
• If you would like my worksheet matching 
the strategy to cyber essentials and sans 
top 20 please email me at cio@vciso.co 
• Linkedin with me at 
uk.linkedin/1davidclarke 
• Twitter @1davidclarke

David Clarke, CITSO at Digital Arena - Security Benchmarking, best practise and strategy development

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    SECURITY BENCHMARKING, BESTPRACTICE AND STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT David Clarke Vciso
  • 2.
    David Clarke •Created CERT on a Financial Intranet trading $3.5 Trillion a day ,CPNI Member 10 Years. • Managed Global Managed Security Services with a $100-$300 million Global install base 500 + Customers with $3.4 Billion dollar Contracts. • Created , maintained and improved regulatory and compliance commitments including Global PCI-DSS, ISO 27001 (10,000+ Security Devices/Systems ).
  • 3.
    • Breach Legislation,IT or Legal? • " the proposed regulation of up to 5% of annual worldwide turnover, or €100"
  • 4.
    • Information Sharing, Who,When, How • "The ICO has imposed a monetary penalty of £200000 on the British Pregnancy Advice Service (BPAS) for exposing thousands of personal"
  • 5.
    • Compliance isthe best protection? • "Resistance is futile" Gartner • "Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust fined £325k after hard drives with highly-sensitive patient data were sold on eBay, - "
  • 6.
    • Best Practiceor is this Compliance ? • "The ICO can issue fines of up to £500,000 for serious breaches of the Data Protection Act and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations." ICO
  • 7.
    • Incident Response,Strategy • "There are two kinds of big companies in the U.S. Those who’ve been hacked by the Chinese and those who don’t know they’ve been hacked.” FBI
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    4 Threats •Internal Threat • External Threat • Regulatory Threat • The Threat of “inadvertent human error”
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    ISO 20000 ChangeProcess Service Introduction Problem management Escalation Processe
  • 11.
    Security Measurement •Measure of Compliance • Measure of System effectiveness • Measure of People Awareness • Measuremnet of main Threat Vector
  • 13.
    72 Hours toReport % 5% of Worldwide Revenue 71
  • 14.
    Cyber Essentials BoundaryControl Secure Configuration Patch Managment Malware Defense Access Control
  • 15.
    Each Event is0.25 80% achievable =0.2 The Maths Dependent Events 0.2+0.2+.2+.2=0.8 Previously 0.32 A Dramatic improvement by using a Leveraged Strategy
  • 16.
    Probably? Independent Events 0.8x 0.8x0.8x0.8=0.41
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    "Inadvertent human error Inadvertent human error Hacker 95% Human Error 19:1 Leverage to Hackers
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    Incidents • EscalationProcedure • Alerting Procedure • Password Managment
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    Real Time Incident 1.2 13% Escalation Management Judgement Calls Staff Working with Outsourcers Identifying Risk/Direction Legal Presenting The Down Side Define Purpose Incident End Mitigation Techniques Information Control Post Analysis Stakeholders Prerequisites 0.14 0.12 0.1 0.08 0.06 0.04 0.02 0 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 12% 11% 11% 9% 9% 8% 6% 4% 4% 3% 3% 3% 2% 13% 26% 37% 48% 57% 66% 73% 79% 83% 88% 91% 94% 98% 100%
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    • If youwould like my worksheet matching the strategy to cyber essentials and sans top 20 please email me at cio@vciso.co • Linkedin with me at uk.linkedin/1davidclarke • Twitter @1davidclarke