To better understand how organizations manage the planning and securing of their digital assets, McAfee, Inc. retained Evalueserve to conduct an independent assessment of how organizations manage their security policies and processes, and what threats are perceived to pose the greatest
risk to their business. This global study of Enterprise-class organizations highlights how IT decision makers view the challenges of securing information assets in a highly regulated and increasingly complex global business environment. It is also forward-looking, revealing companies’ IT security priorities around processes, practices and technology for 2012 and beyond.
Building an effective Information Security RoadmapElliott Franklin
As company information security functions continue to grow each year with increasing attacks and regulations, how are you handling the
pressure? Are you constantly battling to run the business projects and reacting to customer requests? Have you blocked off a few hours each week
on your calendar to close your email, turn off your phone and try to build, assess and maintain an effective vision for your security team? This
presentation will discuss a cascading approach to creating such a roadmap that is easily understood by executives and has helped gain quick buy
in for multiple enterprise wide security projects.
Developing Metrics for Information Security Governancedigitallibrary
Information security has become a critical issue within organizations, and a key success factor for businesses. To effectively maintain the integrity and security of an organization's information infrastructure effective security metrics and measures must be developed, implemented and monitored. Learn about enterprise security metrics and the concepts that must be considered when developing, implementing, and monitoring them. Understand how to identify measurable points and activities, develop meaningful metrics and measures and monitor concepts. Case studies and scenarios demonstrate operational scenarios for the benefits and challenges of securing information.
How to measure your cybersecurity performanceAbhishek Sood
In order for organizations to stay competitive, they must always be improving. This too is true for their cybersecurity.
Being able to properly harvest and digest cybersecurity benchmarking information is critical for today’s CIOs. If you realize that your cybersecurity is not at the level it should be, evaluating it properly can help you raise appropriate resources to fix the issues.
Discover how to get the full picture of your organization's security performance compared to your peers. Learn why benchmarking is so critical for today's CIOs and how to clearly communicate benchmarking data to your board.
To better understand how organizations manage the planning and securing of their digital assets, McAfee, Inc. retained Evalueserve to conduct an independent assessment of how organizations manage their security policies and processes, and what threats are perceived to pose the greatest
risk to their business. This global study of Enterprise-class organizations highlights how IT decision makers view the challenges of securing information assets in a highly regulated and increasingly complex global business environment. It is also forward-looking, revealing companies’ IT security priorities around processes, practices and technology for 2012 and beyond.
Building an effective Information Security RoadmapElliott Franklin
As company information security functions continue to grow each year with increasing attacks and regulations, how are you handling the
pressure? Are you constantly battling to run the business projects and reacting to customer requests? Have you blocked off a few hours each week
on your calendar to close your email, turn off your phone and try to build, assess and maintain an effective vision for your security team? This
presentation will discuss a cascading approach to creating such a roadmap that is easily understood by executives and has helped gain quick buy
in for multiple enterprise wide security projects.
Developing Metrics for Information Security Governancedigitallibrary
Information security has become a critical issue within organizations, and a key success factor for businesses. To effectively maintain the integrity and security of an organization's information infrastructure effective security metrics and measures must be developed, implemented and monitored. Learn about enterprise security metrics and the concepts that must be considered when developing, implementing, and monitoring them. Understand how to identify measurable points and activities, develop meaningful metrics and measures and monitor concepts. Case studies and scenarios demonstrate operational scenarios for the benefits and challenges of securing information.
How to measure your cybersecurity performanceAbhishek Sood
In order for organizations to stay competitive, they must always be improving. This too is true for their cybersecurity.
Being able to properly harvest and digest cybersecurity benchmarking information is critical for today’s CIOs. If you realize that your cybersecurity is not at the level it should be, evaluating it properly can help you raise appropriate resources to fix the issues.
Discover how to get the full picture of your organization's security performance compared to your peers. Learn why benchmarking is so critical for today's CIOs and how to clearly communicate benchmarking data to your board.
CISSP Boot Camp & become Certified Information Systems Security Professional, ISC2 Certified Trainers, 9/10 Passing, Cost inclusive of 5000 CISSP Test Questions.
How to integrate risk into your compliance-only approachAbhishek Sood
Information security policies and standards can oftentimes cause confusion and even liability within an organization.
This resource details 4 pitfalls of a compliance-only approach and offers a secure method to complying with policies and standards through a risk-integrated approach.
Uncover 4 Benefits of integrating risk into your compliance approach, including:
Reduced risk
Reduced deployment time
And 2 more
CompTIA’s Trends in Information Security study provides insights into the behaviors, techniques and opportunities with IT security as businesses use new technology.
No one source can provide all of the data necessary for security monitoring. To be truly effective, organizations need better relevant data, and they need it faster. Early detection of infiltration and compromise are key to rapid and accurate response and recovery.
Based on research from at leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), these webinar research slides outline how organizations are finding threats faster, their largest drivers for integrations, and their greatest challenges in integrating the data.
The CISO in 2020: Prepare for the UnexpectedIBM Security
The 2014 CISO Assessment evaluates the current state of security leadership and what leaders expect to face in the next three to five years. Security leaders are in the midst of an evolution. Driven by the specter of external attacks and the needs of their own organizations, they are continuing the shift toward a business leadership role that focuses on risk management and taking a more integrated and systemic approach.
As security becomes an integral part of every business, what new responsibilities will be added to the CISO in the next three to five years? With their plates already full, what can security leaders do to strengthen their preparations and improve their foresight?
In this webinar you will gain the latest insights from the 2014 CISO assessment and from your peers into the future role of information security leaders.
View the full on-demand webcast: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/495952474
CISSP Boot Camp & become Certified Information Systems Security Professional, ISC2 Certified Trainers, 9/10 Passing, Cost inclusive of 5000 CISSP Test Questions.
How to integrate risk into your compliance-only approachAbhishek Sood
Information security policies and standards can oftentimes cause confusion and even liability within an organization.
This resource details 4 pitfalls of a compliance-only approach and offers a secure method to complying with policies and standards through a risk-integrated approach.
Uncover 4 Benefits of integrating risk into your compliance approach, including:
Reduced risk
Reduced deployment time
And 2 more
CompTIA’s Trends in Information Security study provides insights into the behaviors, techniques and opportunities with IT security as businesses use new technology.
No one source can provide all of the data necessary for security monitoring. To be truly effective, organizations need better relevant data, and they need it faster. Early detection of infiltration and compromise are key to rapid and accurate response and recovery.
Based on research from at leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), these webinar research slides outline how organizations are finding threats faster, their largest drivers for integrations, and their greatest challenges in integrating the data.
The CISO in 2020: Prepare for the UnexpectedIBM Security
The 2014 CISO Assessment evaluates the current state of security leadership and what leaders expect to face in the next three to five years. Security leaders are in the midst of an evolution. Driven by the specter of external attacks and the needs of their own organizations, they are continuing the shift toward a business leadership role that focuses on risk management and taking a more integrated and systemic approach.
As security becomes an integral part of every business, what new responsibilities will be added to the CISO in the next three to five years? With their plates already full, what can security leaders do to strengthen their preparations and improve their foresight?
In this webinar you will gain the latest insights from the 2014 CISO assessment and from your peers into the future role of information security leaders.
View the full on-demand webcast: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/495952474
A security policy should outline the key items in an organization that need to be protected. This
might include the company's network, its physical building, and more. It also needs to outline the
potential threats to those items. If the document focuses on cyber security, threats could include
those from the inside, such as possibility that disgruntled employees will steal important
information or launch an internal virus on the company's network.
Security policy
A security policy is a written document in an organization outlining how to protect the
organization from threats, including computer security threats, and how to handle situations
when they do occur.
A security policy is an overall statement of intent that dictates what role security plays within the
organization. Security policies can be organizational policies, issue-specific policies, or system-
specific policies, or a combination of all of these.
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/security-policy]
A security policy is a document that states in writing how a company plans to protect the
company's physical and information technology (IT) assets.
Why do you need a security policy?
A security policy contains pre-approved organizational procedures that tell you exactly what you
need to do in order to prevent security problems and next steps if you are ever faced with a data
breach. Security problems can include:
Confidentiality – people obtaining or disclosing information inappropriately
Data Integrity – information being altered or erroneously validated, whether deliberate or
accidental
Availability – information not being available when it is required or being available to
more users than is appropriate
At the very least, having a security ( ★★For making this content author used various online resources, it is share here only for those who want to know something about it. This content is not the full of author's primary/ own creating/ intellectual property. )
Explanation of the most common types of administrative risksPrathitha cb
Organizational risk management provides great benefits to the organization because it helps to prioritize the resources, increase interoperability, and reduce costs incurred due to the adverse effects. It helps to prevent unauthorized access to personally identifiable information which will lead to security breaches.
Netspective Opsfolio captures your risks, catalogs your IT assets, and documents your ops teams’ work. Plus it gives you an API-accessible central repository for sharing risks, documentation, and assets across systems. Use it to help prevent, detect or recover from security breaches. For more information visit https://www.netspective.com/opsfolio/
Cyber security practices involve preventing malicious attacks on computers, servers, mobile devices, electronic systems, networks, and data. It is also called information technology security or electronic information security.
https://www.infosectrain.com/courses/ceh-v11-certification-training/
CompTIA CySA Domain 5 Compliance and Assessment.pptxInfosectrain3
The CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) certification is the industry standard for demonstrating that cybersecurity professionals can analyze data and interpret the results to detect vulnerabilities, threats, and risks to an organization.
Vendors, and Risk, and Tigers, and Bears, Oh My: How to Create a Vendor Revie...Wendy Knox Everette
ShmooCon 2020
You’ve just been tasked with creating a vendor review management process at your company, but what does that even mean, and how are you going to do this? Do you need to buy a lot of expensive GRC software and hire an army of compliance staffers? This talk will explain what a vendor review process is and walk through setting one up at your company, using nothing more complicated than email, text files, and maybe some Slack and Google Forms.
Cybersecurity: Quick Preparedness AssessmentCBIZ, Inc.
Any company that relies on technology to manage client information is vulnerable to liability or loss if a data breach occurs. Use this quick assessment tool to determine whether your business is prepared for a cyber threat.
Every organisation that wants to construct, strengthen, or boost an information security management system in order to comply with its existing information security policy and standards. This is exactly where the ISO 27001: Information Security Management System Certification or the Certified Information Security Management come to rule. With the growing exchange of information, data security has progressed beyond just sharing. Recent studies suggest data exchange and data security go parallel, progressively more important to protect against attackers, fraudsters, and other threats.
8 requirements to get iso 27001 certification in sri lankaAnoosha Factocert
ISO 27001 Certification in Sri Lanka does not identify a specific strategy, instead advocating a "process way." It is simply a Plan-Do-Check-Act procedure. Factocert is one of the leading ISO 27001 Certification Consultants in Sri Lanka. We provide services in Colombo, Galle, Kandy, Trincomalee, Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia, and other major cities.
A to Z of Information Security ManagementMark Conway
The purpose of information security is to protect an organisation’s valuable assets, such as information, Intellectual property, hardware, and software.
Through the selection and application of appropriate safeguards or controls, information security helps an organisation to meet its business objectives by protecting its physical and financial resources, reputation, legal position, employees, and other tangible and intangible assets.
In this A to Z I’d like to outline some of the key focus areas for organisations wishing to pursue compliance to the ISO27001 Information Security standard.
Use this catalog to browse Trustwave’s security education offerings, including security awareness training for all staff and secure software development courses for technical staff. If you have questions please contact us.
Get Your Board to Say "Yes" to a BSIMM AssessmentCigital
Not everyone understands why benchmarking is important or how it can help set the course for the future. If you’re having trouble convincing your executive team why this matters take a look at our slides Get Your Board to Say “Yes” to a BSIMM Assessment for guidance on what to share and how to share it.
Introduction to IT compliance program and Discuss the challenges IT .pdfSALES97
Introduction to IT compliance program and Discuss the challenges IT divisions face in achieving
regulatory compliance? Discuss detailed plan which includes initiating, planning, developing and
implementation of IT compliance?
Solution
Answer:
IT compliance program
Compliance is either a condition of being as per built up rules or determinations, or the way
toward winding up so. Programming, for instance, might be produced in Compliance with details
made by a principles body, and after that sent by client associations in Compliance with a
merchant\'s permitting assertion. The meaning of Compliance can likewise include endeavors to
guarantee that associations are maintaining both industry directions and government enactment.
Duty
Duty by the overseeing body and senior administration to compelling Compliance that pervades
the entire association.
The Compliance approach is adjusted to the association\'s system and business targets, and is
supported by the overseeing body.
Suitable assets are assigned to create, execute, keep up and enhance the Compliance program.
The overseeing body and senior administration embrace the targets and technique of the
Compliance program.
Compliance commitments are recognized and evaluated.
Execution
Obligation regarding Compliance results is obviously explained and doled out.
Fitness and preparing needs are distinguished and routed to empower representatives to satisfy
their Compliance commitments.
Practices that make and bolster Compliance programs are supported, and practices that bargain
Compliance are not endured.
Controls are set up to deal with the distinguished Compliance commitments and accomplish
wanted practices.
Observing and estimating
Execution of the Compliance program is observed, estimated and written about.
• Improving IT framework with the goal that more successive information is accessible
for certain hazard zones (credit hazard and liquidity chance)
• Process upgrades to foundation in order to lessen dependence on manual workarounds
and to mechanize collections
• Simplifying current IT engineering and information streams crosswise over divisions
and legitimate substances to streamline the total procedure and to empower snappy
conglomeration of hazard information amid times of pressure
• Ensuring that predictable and coordinated information scientific classifications and
lexicons exist at the gathering level, and all through the association
• Identifying and characterizing \"information proprietors\" to enhance responsibility.
Compliance is a common business concern, incompletely as a result of a regularly expanding
number of directions that expect organizations to be cautious about keeping up a full
comprehension of their administrative Compliance prerequisites. Some conspicuous controls,
guidelines and enactment.
As directions and different rules have progressively turned into a worry of corporate
administration, organizations are turning all the more every now and again to specific
Compliance p.
Behavioral-Based Safety – Predictive Analytics and a Safe Workplace McKenney's Inc
Companies large and small are using predictive analytics to decrease workplace incidents – by focusing on behavioral trends. Learn more at http://blog.mckenneys.com/2017/02/behavioral-based-safety-predictive-analytics-and-a-safe-workplace/
The purpose of this paper is to examine the main security problems in electronic voting systems, particularly security threats to DRE voting systems and security threats to the Internet voting systems. It will focus on how security problems can be addressed. The paper is divided into four parts. The first part will pinpoint the criteria of using electronic voting systems while focusing on the main security problems in DRE and Internet based voting systems and will suggest their solutions. The second and third parts will propose secure reference architecture for electronic and internet based voting systems while the last part will be the conclusion.
The cloud computing paradigm is still evolving, but has recently gained tremendous momentum. However, security and privacy issues pose as the key roadblock to its fast adoption. In this paper we present security and privacy challenges that are exacerbated by the unique aspects of clouds and show how they're related to various delivery and deployment models. We discuss various approaches to address these challenges, existing solutions, and future work needed to provide a trustworthy cloud computing environment.
Proposed pricing model for cloud computingAdeel Javaid
Cloud computing is an emerging technology of business computing and it is becoming a development trend. The process of entering into the cloud is generally in the form of queue, so that each user needs to wait until the current user is being served. In the system, each Cloud Computing User (CCU) requests Cloud Computing Service Provider (CCSP) to use the resources, if CCU(cloud computing user) finds that the server is busy then the user has to wait till the current user completes the job which leads to more queue length and increased waiting time. So to solve this problem, it is the work of CCSP’s to provide service to users with less waiting time otherwise there is a chance that the user might be leaving from queue. CCSP’s can use multiple servers for reducing queue length and waiting time. In this paper, we have shown how the multiple servers can reduce the mean queue length and waiting time. Our approach is to treat a multiserver system as an M/M/m queuing model, such that a profit maximization model could be worked out.
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are distributed and independent sensors that are connected and worked together to measure quantities such as temperature, humidity, pressure, noise levels or vibrations. WSNs can measure vehicular movement (velocity, location, etc.) and monitor conditions such as lightning condition, soil makeup and motion. Nowadays, WSNs are utilized in many common applications such as vehicle applications. Some of vehicle applications are: vehicle tracking and detection, tire pressure monitoring, vehicle speed detection, vehicle direction indicator, traffic control, reversing aid sensors etc. Such applications can be divided in major categories such as safety, security, environment and logistics. To implement WSN in an application and have an efficient system, we need to consider about WSN technology, and its components. This paper is aimed at providing reliable software architecture of WSN that could be implemented for better performance and working.
This part provides a template for developing a marketing strategy for the smaller organization. The format is a workbook style with many forms to help provide a solid guide for executing the strategy concepts discussed earlier. A complete marketing strategy document will be in much more detail than provided by the forms and questions. You will want to refer to the text for a detailed discussion of the concepts before filling in the forms.
Toyota Motor Corporation's vehicle production system is a way of "making things" that is sometimes referred to as a "lean manufacturing system" or a "Just-in-Time (JIT) system," and has come to be well known and studied worldwide.
In Cloud, existing vulnerabilities, threats, and associated attacks raise several security concerns. Vulnerabilities in Cloud can be defined as the loopholes in the security architecture of Cloud, which can be exploited by an adversary via sophisticated techniques to gain access to the network and other infrastructure resources. In these slides, we discuss major Cloud specific vulnerabilities, which pose serious threats to Cloud computing.
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
20 Comprehensive Checklist of Designing and Developing a WebsitePixlogix Infotech
Dive into the world of Website Designing and Developing with Pixlogix! Looking to create a stunning online presence? Look no further! Our comprehensive checklist covers everything you need to know to craft a website that stands out. From user-friendly design to seamless functionality, we've got you covered. Don't miss out on this invaluable resource! Check out our checklist now at Pixlogix and start your journey towards a captivating online presence today.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
1. SECURITY SELF
ASSESMENT
qUESTIONNAIRE
The following section presents a simple checklist
as a tool for top management to help guide their
internal review of their company’s cyber resilience
capabilities and to enable them to ask the right
questions to the teams involved in these initiatives.
The questions asked in the tool can help them
to identify speciic strengths and weaknesses –
and paths to improvement within their respective
company.
For each of the questions below, companies should
choose from the provided options the one that is
best relecting the current practices of the company.
Each of the options has been given a bullet colour,
where:
■ This is the least desirable response; Improvement
should clearly be considered.
■ Additional improvement is possible to better
protect the company.
At the same time, this self assessment questionnaire
can be used as a checklist by companies that are
just beginning in their information security initiatives,
and want to use the questions and answers as a
basis for planning their cyber resilience capabilities.
■ This answer is the best relection of resilience
against cyber threats.
Further, the presence of a more specific checklist
under each question will help you to identify and
document the status of a set of basic information
security controls for your company.
Companies can use the referenced principles and
actions in the two previous chapters as guidance
for improving their resilience related to each of the
speciic questions.
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2. 1. DO YOU EVALUATE HOW SENSITIVE
INFORMATION IS WITHIN YOUR COMPANY?
✘
No, but we have a irewall to protect us from theft of information.
Yes, we understand the importance of our information and implement general security measures.
and we have an information classiication model and know where our sensitive information
✔ Yes, processed. We implement security measures based on the sensitivity of the information. is stored
and
The following 5 questions are intended to provide you some basic information security checks for your company.
Yes
Are your sensitive data identiied and classiied?
Are you aware of your responsibility regarding the identiied sensitive data?
Are the most sensitive data highly protected or encrypted?
Is the management of personal private information covered by procedures?
Are all employees able to identify and correctly protect sensitive and non sensitive data?
LINK TO RELEVANT
PRINCIPLE
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POTENTIAL ACTIONS
TO IMPROVE YOUR RESPONSE
2
No
3. SECURITY SELF ASSESSMENT
qUESTIONNAIRE
2. DO YOU PERFORM INFORMATION
SECURITY RELATED RISk ASSESSMENTS ?
✘
We do not perform risk assessments.
We perform risk assessments but not on any speciic information security related topics
✔ We perform risk assessments on speciic information security topics
The following 5 questions are intended to provide you some basic information security checks for your company.
Yes
No
Do you address vulnerability results in order of high risk to low risk?
Are events that could cause interruptions to business processes identiied and is the
impact of the potential related interruptions assessed?
Do you have a current business continuity plan that is tested and updated on a regular
basis?
Do you regularly perform a risk assessment to update the level of protection the data and
information need?
Are areas of risk identiied throughout your business processes in order to prevent
information processing corruption or deliberate misuse?
LINK TO RELEVANT
PRINCIPLE
POTENTIAL ACTIONS
TO IMPROVE YOUR RESPONSE
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4. 3. AT WHAT LEVEL IS INFORMATION
SECURITY GOVERNANCE IMPLEMENTED?
✘
There is no information security governance in place.
Information security governance is installed within the ICT department since that’s where the information
needs to be secured.
✔ Information security governance is installed at the corporate level to ensure an impact on the entire
company.
The following 5 questions are intended to provide you some basic information security checks for your company.
Yes
Do board members allocate an information security budget?
Is information security part the existing risk management of the directors?
Does top management approve the information security policy of the company and
communicate it by an appropriate way to the employees?
Are board members and top management informed on a regular basis of the latest
developments in information security policies, standards, procedures and guidelines?
Is there at least one oficer part of the management structure in charge of the protection of
data and the privacy of personal information?
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4. DO YOU HAVE AN INFORMATION SECURITY TEAM
OR A DEDICATED INFORMATION
SECURITY FUNCTION WITHIN YOUR COMPANY?
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We do not have an information security team or speciic roles & responsibilities
concerning information security.
We do not have an information security team but we have deined
speciic information security roles & responsibilities within the company.
✔ We have an information security team or a dedicated information security function.
The following 5 questions are intended to provide you some basic information security checks for your company.
Yes
No
Does an identiied information security specialist or team coordinate in house knowledge
and provide help to the management in decision making?
Is the identiied information security specialist or team responsible to review and
systematically update the information security policy based on signiicant changes or
incidents?
Has the identiied information security specialist or team enough visibility and support to
intervene in any information-related initiative in the company?
Are there different managers responsible for separate types of data?
Is the information security policy feasibility and effectiveness, as well as the information
security team’s eficacy, regularly reviewed by an independent body?
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6. 5. HOW DOES YOUR COMPANY DEAL WITH
INFORMATION SECURITY RISkS FROM SUPPLIERS
WHO CAN ACCESS YOUR SENSITIVE INFORMATION?
✘
We have a relationship based on mutual trust with our suppliers.
For some contracts we include information security related clauses.
processes in place to
for
✔ We havesecurity guidelines are validate access andsuppliersbyand suppliers.
speciic
communicated
signed
our
The following 5 questions are intended to provide you some basic information security checks for your company.
Yes
Are contractors and suppliers identiied by an ID badge with a recent picture?
Do you have policies addressing background checks for contractors and suppliers?
Is access to facilities and information systems automatically cut off when a contractor or
supplier ends his mission?
Do suppliers know how and to whom to immediately report in your company any loss or
theft of information?
Does your company ensure suppliers keep their software and applications updated with
security patches?
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6. DOES YOUR COMPANY EVALUATE COMPUTER AND
NETWORk SECURITY ON A REGULAR BASIS?
✘
We do not perform audits or penetration tests to evaluate our computer and network security.
We do not have a systematic approach for performing security audits and/or penetration tests
but execute some on an ad hoc basis.
✔ Regular security audits and/or penetration tests are systematically part of our approach to evaluate
our computer and network security.
The following 5 questions are intended to provide you some basic information security checks for your company.
Yes
No
Do you test on a regular basis and keep records of identiied threats?
Do you have procedures in order to evaluate human threats to your information systems,
including dishonesty, social engineering and abuse of trust?
Does your company request security audit reports from its information service providers?
Is the utility of each type of stored data also assessed during the security audits?
Do you audit your information processes and procedures for compliance with the other
established policies and standards within the company?
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8. 7. WHEN INTRODUCING NEW TECHNOLOGIES,
DOES YOUR COMPANY ASSESS POTENTIAL
INFORMATION SECURITY RISkS?
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Information security is not part of the process for implementing new technologies.
Information security is only implemented in the process for new technologies on an ad hoc basis.
✔ Information security is included in the process for implementing new technologies.
The following 5 questions are intended to provide you some basic information security checks for your company.
Yes
When considering implementing new technologies, do you assess their potential impact
on the established information security policy?
Are there protective measures to reduce risk when implementing new technologies?
Are the processes to implement new technologies documented?
When implementing new technologies, could your company rely on partnerships, in order
that collaborative efforts and critical security information sharing is occurring?
Is your company’s information security policy often considered as a barrier to
technological opportunities?
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8. DOES INFORMATION SECURITY TAkE PLACE WITHIN
YOUR COMPANY?
✘
We put trust in our employees and do not consider information security guidance as added value.
Only our ICT personnel receives speciic training for securing our ICT-environment.
✔ Regular information security awareness sessions are organised for all employees.
The following 5 questions are intended to provide you some basic information security checks for your company.
Yes
No
Are some information security awareness sessions adapted to the activity ield of the
employees?
Are employee taught to be alert to information security breaches?
Does your company have a guideline for users to report security weakness in, or threats
to, systems or services?
Do employees know how to properly manage credit card data and private personal
information?
Do third party users (where relevant) also receive appropriate information security training
and regular updates in organisational policies and procedures?
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10. 9. HOW DO YOU USE PASSWORDS WITHIN THE
COMPANY?
share passwords with other
and/or no
✘ Wepasswords nor for the regularcolleagues passwords.policy exists for the safe usage
of
change of
have unique
All employees, including the management, mandatory. passwords but complexity rules are not enforced.
Changing passwords are optional, but not
including the management, have
✔ All employees,and must be changed regularly. a personal password that must meet deined password
requirements
The following 5 questions are intended to provide you some basic information security checks for your company.
Yes
Did your company establish and enforce a globally-accepted password policy?
Can you assure all passwords in your company are not stored into easily accessible iles,
bad or blank, default, rarely changed even on mobile devices?
Do you feel well protected against unauthorized physical access to system?
Are users and contractors aware of their responsibility to protect unattended equipments
as well (logoff)?
Have employees been taught how to recognise social engineering and react to this threat?
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10. IS THERE A COMPANY POLICY IN PLACE FOR THE
APPROPRIATE USE OF THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL
MEDIA?
✘
No, there is no policy in place for the appropriate use of the internet.
Yes, a policy is available on a centralised location accessible to all employees
but has not been signed by the employees.
policy for
✔ Yes, asigned the the appropriate use of the internet is part of the contract / all employees
have
policy.
The following 5 questions are intended to provide you some basic information security checks for your company.
Yes
No
Are there general communication guidelines and processes for employees in the company,
including relation to the press and social media?
Is there a disciplinary process for employees violating the company’s communication
guidelines?
Does an identiied communications responsible or team screen the Internet in order to
assess e-reputation risks and status?
Has your company assessed its liability for acts of employees or other internal users or
attackers abusing the system to perpetrate unlawful acts?
Has your company taken measures to prevent an employee or other internal user to attack
other sites?
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12. 11. DOES YOUR COMPANY MEASURE, REPORT AND
FOLLOW-UP ON INFORMATION SECURITY RELATED
MATTERS?
✘
We do not monitor, report or follow-up on the eficiency and adequacy of our implemented security
measures.
Our company has implemented tools and methods to monitor, report and follow-up the eficiency and
adequacy of a selection of our implemented security measures.
company has implemented the
✔ Ourthe eficiency and adequacy of allnecessary tools and methods to monitor, report and follow-up
on
our implemented security measures.
The following 5 questions are intended to provide you some basic information security checks for your company.
Yes
Are audit trails and logs relating to the incidents maintained and proactive action taken in
a way that the incident doesn’t reoccur?
Does your company verify compliance with regulatory and legal requirements (for
example: data privacy)?
Has your company developed some own tools to assist the management in assessing the
security posture and enabling the company to accelerate its ability to mitigate potential
risks?
Does an information security roadmap including goals, progress evaluation and potential
collaborative opportunities exist in your company?
Are monitoring reports and incidents reported to authorities and other interest groups
such as a sector federation?
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12. HOW ARE SYSTEMS kEPT UP-TO-DATE WITHIN
YOUR COMPANY ?
✘
We rely on automatic patch management, provided by the vendor, for most of our solutions.
Security patches are systematically applied on a monthly basis.
a vulnerability management
continuously seek information
✔ We have vulnerabilities (for ex. troughprocess in placeonandservice that automatically sendsconcerning
possible
a subscription
a
out warnings
for new vulnerabilities) and apply patched based on the risks they mitigate.
The following 5 questions are intended to provide you some basic information security checks for your company.
Yes
No
Is vulnerability scanning a regular scheduled maintenance task in the company?
Is application system reviewed and tested after change in operating system?
Can users check themselves the existence of unpatched applications?
Are users aware that they also have to keep up-to date the operating system and
applications, including security software, of their mobile devices?
Are users trained to recognize a legitimate warning message (requesting permission for
update, or from fake antivirus) and to properly notify the security team if something bad or
questionable has happened?
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14. 13. ARE USER ACCESS RIGHTS TO APPLICATIONS
AND SYSTEMS REVIEWED AND MANAGED
ON A REGULAR BASIS?
✘
Access rights to applications and systems are not consistently removed nor reviewed.
Access rights to applications and systems are only removed when an employee is leaving the company.
control policy established with regular
✔ An accessapplications andissupporting systems. reviews of assigned user access rights for all relevant
business
The following 5 questions are intended to provide you some basic information security checks for your company.
Yes
Is access to electronic information systems and facilities limited by policies and
procedures?
Does your company rely on a privacy policy stating the information it collects ( for
example about your customers: physical addresses, email addresses, browsing history,
etc), and is done with it
Do the policies and procedures specify methods used to control physical access to
secure areas such as door locks, access control systems or video monitoring?
Is access to facilities and information systems automatically cut off when members of
personnel end employment?
Is the sensitive data classiied (Highly Conidential, Sensitive, Internal Use Only,...) and its
granted users inventoried?
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14. IN YOUR COMPANY, CAN THE EMPLOYEES
USE THEIR OWN PERSONAL DEVICES, SUCH AS
MOBILE PHONES AND TABLETS, TO STORE OR
TRANSFER COMPANY INFORMATION?
✘
Yes, we can store or transfer company information on personal devices without the implementation of
extra security measures.
A policy exists that prohibits the use of personal devices to store or transfer company information but
technically it is possible to do so without implementing extra security measures.
can only store transfer company information after the implementation
✔ Personal devices personal deviceorand/or a professional solution has been provided. of security
measures on the
The following 5 questions are intended to provide you some basic information security checks for your company.
Yes
No
Does your company rely on a well accepted Bring Your Own Device policy?
Are mobile devices protected from unauthorised users?
Are all devices and connections permanently identiied on the network?
Is encryption installed on each mobile device to protect the conidentiality and integrity of
data?
Is the corporate level aware that while the individual employee may be liable for a device,
the company is still liable for the data?
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16. 15. HAS YOUR COMPANY TAkEN MEASURES
TO PREVENT LOSS OF STORED INFORMATION?
✘
We have no backup/availability process in place.
We have a backup/availability process but no restore tests have been performed.
process in place that
restore/resilience tests. We have
✔ We have a backup/availabilitysecured location or areincludesother high-availability solutions. copies of
our backup stored in another
using
The following 5 questions are intended to provide you some basic information security checks for your company.
Yes
Are there enough members of the staff able to create retrievable backup and archival
copies?
Is the equipment protected from power failures by using permanence of power supplies
such as multiple feeds, uninterruptible power supply (ups), backup generator etc.?
Are the backup media regularly tested to ensure that they could be restored within the
time frame allotted in the recovery procedure?
Does your company apply reporting procedures for lost or stolen mobile equipment?
Are employees trained on what to do if information is accidentally deleted and how to
retrieve information in times of disaster?
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16. IS YOUR COMPANY PREPARED TO HANDLE
AN INFORMATION SECURITY INCIDENT?
✘
We won’t have any incidents. In case we have, our employees are competent enough to cope with it.
We have incident management procedures, however not adapted to handle information security
incidents.
to
information security incidents, with the necessary escalation and
✔ We have a dedicated process Wehandle to handle incidents as eficient and effective as possible so we
communication mechanisms.
strive
learn how to better protect ourselves in the future.
The following 5 questions are intended to provide you some basic information security checks for your company.
Yes
No
Does your process address different types of incidents ranging from denial of service to
breach of conidentiality etc., and ways to handle them?
Does your company have an incident management communication plan?
Do you know which authorities to notify and how in case of incident?
Does your company have contact information sorted and identiied for each type of
incident?
Do you rely on an Internal Communication responsible for contacts with employees and
their families?
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