ENG Solutions is an IT services and consulting company specializing in security assessments, compliance, and audit readiness support. It was founded in 2010 and has a Top Secret facility clearance as well as participation in NSA programs. The company provides services such as security assessments, vulnerability management, incident response, and audit support across many government agencies and departments.
This document outlines an information security assessment process and methodology provided by Opportune Corporate. It includes an agenda, overview of information security and its importance, Opportune's profile and experience, an information security assessment framework and methodology, approach and timeline, deliverables, and resumes. The methodology involves confirming the assessment scope, conducting various scans, reviewing policies and configurations, identifying vulnerabilities, analyzing and prioritizing risks, developing a remediation roadmap, and presenting final reports. Case studies demonstrate applying this methodology to assess the security of an oil and gas company and a mineral and royalty owner.
The Next Generation of Security Operations Centre (SOC)PECB
The document discusses the key aspects of building a next generation Security Operations Centre (SOC). It emphasizes that skilled people, well-defined processes, and integrating new technologies are critical. Specifically, it recommends adopting automation and analytics to analyze large datasets, integrating threat intelligence from multiple sources, and establishing red and blue teams to continuously test defenses. The goal of a next generation SOC is to use predictive analysis of vast security data to improve threat detection, response, and the overall security posture of an organization.
State of Security Operations 2016 report of capabilities and maturity of cybe...at MicroFocus Italy ❖✔
As businesses continue to adopt new cloud and mobile functionality rapidly, we find the
edges of the network even more blurred, and our definitions of data ownership and breach
responsibility continue to evolve. Staffing and training continue to be the foremost challenge
of the modern SOC. This is paving the way to hybrid staffing models and hybrid infrastructures
that require less in-house expertise. As a result, highly skilled security team members can then
be utilized for a more specialized hunt and analytics-focused work.
There is no question this year has been both an exciting and challenging time to be in the field
of cyber security. On one hand, it is disheartening to see the continued decline in the maturity
and effectiveness of security operations, while, on the other, I know that we are in the middle
of an exciting and transformative change in our field. You can feel it. We must go where the
data leads us, and we believe that is to widen our definition of security operations to leverage
analytics, data science, Big Data, and shared intelligence to become more effective in protecting
today’s digital enterprise.
Assessing and Managing IT Security RisksChris Ross
Data privacy and protection has become the gold standard in IT. Scale Venture Partners and Wisegate share what they learned from over 100 IT professionals questioned about the risks and technology trends driving their security programs. Read about the move towards data centric security and the need for improvement in automated security controls and metrics reporting.
How to Secure your Fintech Solution - A Whitepaper by RapidValueRapidValue
This whitepaper delves into the security and privacy challenges that are core to Fintech companies and explains how one should go about formulating the security strategy for the Fintech initiative. It also brings into perspective, the various technical aspects of the secured environment from a Fintech point-of-
view.
1. Security operations aim to increase collaboration across teams to integrate security practices throughout the development lifecycle. This helps ensure stronger security.
2. Key goals of security operations include earlier detection of threats, increased transparency, continuous security improvements, and raising threat awareness across teams.
3. Security operation centers are responsible for continuous network monitoring, incident response, forensic analysis, and maintaining threat intelligence to help prevent and respond to security events.
Incident response methodology involves responding to and managing cyber attacks through investigation, containment, eradication, recovery and lessons learned. A well-developed incident response plan is needed to minimize damage from attacks and data breaches, and recover as quickly as possible. Key aspects of incident response include detecting incidents, formulating response strategies, investigating through data collection and forensic analysis, and reporting findings. The goal is to understand attack methods and prevent future incidents.
IT Risk Management & Leadership 23 - 26 June 2013 Dubai360 BSI
WHY IS THIS IT RISK ASSESSMENT WORKSHOP IMPORTANT?
Are you effectively securing your organization’s IT systems that store, process, or transmit organizational information?
Is your IT risk management plan tailored to the specific risk profile of your business and being coordinated across all functional and business units?
With the release of IT Governance frameworks, requirements for risk management and new international standards entering the market, the pressure is mounting to ensure that all your IT risks are identified and the necessary action is taken – be this to mitigate them, accept or ignore them. So, how safe is your IT system? What are the risks that your organization is being exposed to?
The solution to this challenge is to establish an effective risk management process that protects the organization, not just its IT assets, and provides it with the ability to perform its mission.
Risk management is the process of identifying and assessing risk and taking preventive measures to reduce it to an acceptable level. It is critical that you develop an effective risk management program that assesses and mitigates risks within your IT systems and better manages these IT-related mission risks.
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING THIS WORKSHOP
Identify common IT project risks
Learn how to assess threats and vulnerabilities to create a risk response strategy
Understand what qualifies as risk with IT projects
Understand the most common IT risk sources
Qualify and quantify IT risks
Learn the difference between negative and positive IT risks
Develop an IT risk management plan
Plan risk response methods for IT risks
Create risk mitigation and contingency plans
Monitor and control project risks
Overcome resistance from stakeholders and team members
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS WORKSHOP
IT risk managers
IT security managers
Compliance officers
Program and project managers
IT project managers
IT operation manager
Contact Kris at kris@360bsi.com to register.
This document outlines an information security assessment process and methodology provided by Opportune Corporate. It includes an agenda, overview of information security and its importance, Opportune's profile and experience, an information security assessment framework and methodology, approach and timeline, deliverables, and resumes. The methodology involves confirming the assessment scope, conducting various scans, reviewing policies and configurations, identifying vulnerabilities, analyzing and prioritizing risks, developing a remediation roadmap, and presenting final reports. Case studies demonstrate applying this methodology to assess the security of an oil and gas company and a mineral and royalty owner.
The Next Generation of Security Operations Centre (SOC)PECB
The document discusses the key aspects of building a next generation Security Operations Centre (SOC). It emphasizes that skilled people, well-defined processes, and integrating new technologies are critical. Specifically, it recommends adopting automation and analytics to analyze large datasets, integrating threat intelligence from multiple sources, and establishing red and blue teams to continuously test defenses. The goal of a next generation SOC is to use predictive analysis of vast security data to improve threat detection, response, and the overall security posture of an organization.
State of Security Operations 2016 report of capabilities and maturity of cybe...at MicroFocus Italy ❖✔
As businesses continue to adopt new cloud and mobile functionality rapidly, we find the
edges of the network even more blurred, and our definitions of data ownership and breach
responsibility continue to evolve. Staffing and training continue to be the foremost challenge
of the modern SOC. This is paving the way to hybrid staffing models and hybrid infrastructures
that require less in-house expertise. As a result, highly skilled security team members can then
be utilized for a more specialized hunt and analytics-focused work.
There is no question this year has been both an exciting and challenging time to be in the field
of cyber security. On one hand, it is disheartening to see the continued decline in the maturity
and effectiveness of security operations, while, on the other, I know that we are in the middle
of an exciting and transformative change in our field. You can feel it. We must go where the
data leads us, and we believe that is to widen our definition of security operations to leverage
analytics, data science, Big Data, and shared intelligence to become more effective in protecting
today’s digital enterprise.
Assessing and Managing IT Security RisksChris Ross
Data privacy and protection has become the gold standard in IT. Scale Venture Partners and Wisegate share what they learned from over 100 IT professionals questioned about the risks and technology trends driving their security programs. Read about the move towards data centric security and the need for improvement in automated security controls and metrics reporting.
How to Secure your Fintech Solution - A Whitepaper by RapidValueRapidValue
This whitepaper delves into the security and privacy challenges that are core to Fintech companies and explains how one should go about formulating the security strategy for the Fintech initiative. It also brings into perspective, the various technical aspects of the secured environment from a Fintech point-of-
view.
1. Security operations aim to increase collaboration across teams to integrate security practices throughout the development lifecycle. This helps ensure stronger security.
2. Key goals of security operations include earlier detection of threats, increased transparency, continuous security improvements, and raising threat awareness across teams.
3. Security operation centers are responsible for continuous network monitoring, incident response, forensic analysis, and maintaining threat intelligence to help prevent and respond to security events.
Incident response methodology involves responding to and managing cyber attacks through investigation, containment, eradication, recovery and lessons learned. A well-developed incident response plan is needed to minimize damage from attacks and data breaches, and recover as quickly as possible. Key aspects of incident response include detecting incidents, formulating response strategies, investigating through data collection and forensic analysis, and reporting findings. The goal is to understand attack methods and prevent future incidents.
IT Risk Management & Leadership 23 - 26 June 2013 Dubai360 BSI
WHY IS THIS IT RISK ASSESSMENT WORKSHOP IMPORTANT?
Are you effectively securing your organization’s IT systems that store, process, or transmit organizational information?
Is your IT risk management plan tailored to the specific risk profile of your business and being coordinated across all functional and business units?
With the release of IT Governance frameworks, requirements for risk management and new international standards entering the market, the pressure is mounting to ensure that all your IT risks are identified and the necessary action is taken – be this to mitigate them, accept or ignore them. So, how safe is your IT system? What are the risks that your organization is being exposed to?
The solution to this challenge is to establish an effective risk management process that protects the organization, not just its IT assets, and provides it with the ability to perform its mission.
Risk management is the process of identifying and assessing risk and taking preventive measures to reduce it to an acceptable level. It is critical that you develop an effective risk management program that assesses and mitigates risks within your IT systems and better manages these IT-related mission risks.
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING THIS WORKSHOP
Identify common IT project risks
Learn how to assess threats and vulnerabilities to create a risk response strategy
Understand what qualifies as risk with IT projects
Understand the most common IT risk sources
Qualify and quantify IT risks
Learn the difference between negative and positive IT risks
Develop an IT risk management plan
Plan risk response methods for IT risks
Create risk mitigation and contingency plans
Monitor and control project risks
Overcome resistance from stakeholders and team members
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS WORKSHOP
IT risk managers
IT security managers
Compliance officers
Program and project managers
IT project managers
IT operation manager
Contact Kris at kris@360bsi.com to register.
This document summarizes key information from a presentation on security architecture in the IoT age. It discusses the risks of vulnerabilities being exploited in embedded devices, as seen with Stuxnet. It recommends resources for credible cybersecurity information, including the Information Assurance Support Environment site. The document also summarizes guidance on the Risk Management Framework and Security Technical Implementation Guides.
Cybersecurity Preparedness Trends and Best PracticesTony Moroney
The document summarizes the key findings of a cybersecurity preparedness benchmarking study conducted by Berkeley Research Group. The study surveyed over 100 executives across different sectors to evaluate their cybersecurity programs, governance, and incident response capabilities. Key findings included that while organizations focused on cybersecurity culture, many did not feel their programs were fully effective. Current employees were identified as the likely cause of most breaches. Most organizations lacked strategies for emerging technologies like the Internet of Things. The report provided recommendations for organizations to improve, including gaining board leadership support, building security into all activities, and ensuring qualified cybersecurity talent.
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Planning 02 - 04 December 2013 Kuala ...360 BSI
Disasters could cripple your organization, suspending mission-critical processes and disrupting service to your customers. These disasters could be man-made or natural in nature.
The Business Continuity Plan addresses an organization’s ability to continue functioning when normal operations are disrupted. A Disaster Recovery Plan is used to define the resources, action, tasks, and data required to manage the business recovery process in the event of a disaster.
In this workshop you learn to identify vulnerabilities and implement appropriate countermeasures to prevent and mitigate threats to your mission-critical processes. You will learn techniques for creating a business continuity plan (BCP) and the methodology for building an infrastructure that supports its effective implementation.
Benefits of Attending:
Using a carefully selected case study, course participants will:
- Create, document and test continuity arrangements for an organization
- Perform a risk assessment and Business Impact Assessment (BIA) to identify vulnerabilities
- Select and deploy an alternate site for continuity of mission-critical activities
- Identify appropriate strategies to recover the infrastructure and processes
- Organize and manage recovery teams
- Test and maintain an effective recovery plan in a rapidly changing technology environment
Exclusive:
- Bring your BCP/DRP for private consultation review
- BCP/DRP Step-by-step Guide
- BCP/DRP templates and worksheets to aid you in applying and putting into practice what you have learned from this workshop
- FREE CD containing course material, case studies, and other related items of the training workshop
Who should attend:
- Vice Presidents, Directors, General Managers
- Chief Information Officers
- Chief Security Officers
- Chief Information Security Officers
- Chief Technology Officers
- Heads of Departments in Information Security Management
Contact Kris at kris@360bsi.com to register.
The document discusses logging, monitoring, auditing, and the importance of management review controls. It provides details on:
- What a security audit involves, including assessing physical, software, network, and human aspects of an information system.
- How security auditing works by testing adherence to internal IT policies and external standards/regulations.
- The purpose of monitoring security logs to detect anomalies and threats, given the large volume of logs generated.
- The benefits of logging, monitoring and reporting which include stronger governance, oversight, security and compliance.
- How management review controls are important for an effective control environment and ensuring accuracy of key security documents.
Rothke secure360 building a security operations center (soc)Ben Rothke
Building a Security Operations Center (SOC) requires extensive planning and consideration of various organizational and technical factors. A SOC provides continuous monitoring, detection, and response capabilities to protect against cyber threats. It is important to determine whether to build an internal SOC or outsource these functions. Proper staffing, processes, metrics, and management are critical for SOC success.
This document provides guidance on areas of interest (AOI) to evaluate for mergers and acquisitions from an information security perspective. It identifies 22 strategic AOIs that security must scope to understand high risk areas, including application and access management, network/DMZ security, host security, data security and privacy, security policies and training, and security operations. Each AOI includes examples of specific areas to examine to identify strengths needing no attention or areas requiring intervention. The goal is to scope projects to understand risks across a broad scope from an information security standpoint.
The document discusses the need for organizations to improve their governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) posture to address expanding data regulations and cyber threats. It outlines key parameters for an effective GRC strategy, including identity-based authentication and authorization controls, understanding business and regulatory drivers, and stakeholder participation. The document also notes specific GRC challenges with legacy applications like PeopleSoft, such as limited logging and visibility, lack of granular access controls and monitoring, and exposure of sensitive data. It introduces the Appsian Security Platform as a solution to enhance PeopleSoft's security and help meet compliance requirements through features like detailed logging, activity monitoring and analytics, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and contextual access controls based on
Security management concepts and principlesDivya Tiwari
The document discusses several key concepts in information security management including:
1. The Systems Security Engineering Capability Maturity Model (SSE-CMM) describes essential security engineering practices across the system lifecycle and aims to advance security as a mature discipline. It defines 5 capability levels.
2. Configuration management is important for securely managing changes to an organization's IT infrastructure and systems. It involves identifying configuration items, controlling changes, and reporting status.
3. The configuration management framework includes configuration items, change control, status reporting, and protection of items from unauthorized changes.
This document discusses different types of security assessments:
1) Technical security testing assesses security flaws through vulnerability assessments, network penetration testing, web application testing, and source code analysis.
2) Security process assessments evaluate weaknesses in security processes by reviewing frameworks like NIST CSF and COBIT.
3) Security audits involve compliance checks both internally and externally to verify proper security controls are in place.
Business case for information security programWilliam Godwin
This document presents a business case for establishing an information security program. It outlines the background, value, scope, and components of the program. The program aims to safeguard corporate information assets, establish security standards, comply with regulations, and align IT services with business needs. It involves categorizing data, determining risk appetite, analyzing business impacts, developing a security strategy and plans, and implementing controls. The goal is to effectively manage risks and threats, drive process maturity over time, and provide continuous improvements.
Incubated in IIT Kharagpur
Focused on addressing data theft, data loss with security analytics from on-premise and cloud platform, product christened as “inDefend” targeted for Enterprise, SMB and End-Consumers
SOC as a Service manages and monitors your logs, devices, network and assets for internal IT teams. It provides skills to combat cybersecurity threats. Get now! - https://mdr.comodo.com/soc-as-a-service.php?afid=10110
This paper discusses the question of optimizing security decisions in an organization, based on the information provided by the technical security infrastructure.
Understanding the security_organizationDan Morrill
This document discusses risks in information security from regulatory, business, technology, and security perspectives. It outlines how decisions are made based on existing contracts and perceived power rather than technical understanding. Risk is defined as threats times vulnerabilities plus the influence of politics and power. Both proactive and reactive security approaches are discussed along with their limitations. Information security challenges include complexity, unknown vulnerabilities, and persistence of hackers. Overall risk management must account for known and unknown threats within organizational politics.
Security Management is very complex and does not limit itself to products and technologies. It is important to consider alternatives when setting up a Security Operation Center (SOC), from insight into the business plan requirements, ability and the skill set of people who will handle the SOC, the responsibilities for the team, budget and more.
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.
Hp arc sight_state of security ops_whitepaperrickkaun
The document summarizes findings from security operations maturity assessments conducted by HP on 69 security operations centers (SOCs) globally since 2008. Key findings include:
1) The average maturity level of SOCs remains below the ideal level of 3 on HP's 5-level scale, with 24% unable to provide consistent security monitoring and only 30% meeting business/compliance goals.
2) Having experienced a public data breach is often the fastest path to a more capable SOC, as companies then have a clear business case for investment.
3) Reliance on technology alone is insufficient - investment in skilled security analysts is also needed to effectively detect and respond to modern threats.
4) Industry alignment can directly impact
The document discusses the key players and organizational structure for security in an enterprise. It outlines that the size of the security team depends on factors like the size of the enterprise, its systems environment, number of components, locations, and risk level. The security organization includes a Chief Information Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Security Officer, coordinators, and an Executive Committee for Security. The roles of each position are described at a high level.
17-MOD 6 Conducting Security Audits & MOD 7 Information Security Audit Prepar...abhichowdary16
This document discusses information security audits and their key features. It describes the different types of security audits and phases of an information security audit. It outlines the audit process, including defining the security perimeter, describing system components, determining threats, and using appropriate tools. It also discusses auditor roles and skills, as well as elements that characterize a good security audit like clearly defined objectives and an experienced independent audit team.
This document explains the need for information security for all organizations and also the standards to be followed for doing the same. It also gives vendor selection criteria for selecting a consultancy firm for information security. It gives guidelines as to how to stop ethical hacking of your web application, be it any critical data from getting hacked, scripts being run, without the knowledge of the owner.
This document summarizes key information from a presentation on security architecture in the IoT age. It discusses the risks of vulnerabilities being exploited in embedded devices, as seen with Stuxnet. It recommends resources for credible cybersecurity information, including the Information Assurance Support Environment site. The document also summarizes guidance on the Risk Management Framework and Security Technical Implementation Guides.
Cybersecurity Preparedness Trends and Best PracticesTony Moroney
The document summarizes the key findings of a cybersecurity preparedness benchmarking study conducted by Berkeley Research Group. The study surveyed over 100 executives across different sectors to evaluate their cybersecurity programs, governance, and incident response capabilities. Key findings included that while organizations focused on cybersecurity culture, many did not feel their programs were fully effective. Current employees were identified as the likely cause of most breaches. Most organizations lacked strategies for emerging technologies like the Internet of Things. The report provided recommendations for organizations to improve, including gaining board leadership support, building security into all activities, and ensuring qualified cybersecurity talent.
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Planning 02 - 04 December 2013 Kuala ...360 BSI
Disasters could cripple your organization, suspending mission-critical processes and disrupting service to your customers. These disasters could be man-made or natural in nature.
The Business Continuity Plan addresses an organization’s ability to continue functioning when normal operations are disrupted. A Disaster Recovery Plan is used to define the resources, action, tasks, and data required to manage the business recovery process in the event of a disaster.
In this workshop you learn to identify vulnerabilities and implement appropriate countermeasures to prevent and mitigate threats to your mission-critical processes. You will learn techniques for creating a business continuity plan (BCP) and the methodology for building an infrastructure that supports its effective implementation.
Benefits of Attending:
Using a carefully selected case study, course participants will:
- Create, document and test continuity arrangements for an organization
- Perform a risk assessment and Business Impact Assessment (BIA) to identify vulnerabilities
- Select and deploy an alternate site for continuity of mission-critical activities
- Identify appropriate strategies to recover the infrastructure and processes
- Organize and manage recovery teams
- Test and maintain an effective recovery plan in a rapidly changing technology environment
Exclusive:
- Bring your BCP/DRP for private consultation review
- BCP/DRP Step-by-step Guide
- BCP/DRP templates and worksheets to aid you in applying and putting into practice what you have learned from this workshop
- FREE CD containing course material, case studies, and other related items of the training workshop
Who should attend:
- Vice Presidents, Directors, General Managers
- Chief Information Officers
- Chief Security Officers
- Chief Information Security Officers
- Chief Technology Officers
- Heads of Departments in Information Security Management
Contact Kris at kris@360bsi.com to register.
The document discusses logging, monitoring, auditing, and the importance of management review controls. It provides details on:
- What a security audit involves, including assessing physical, software, network, and human aspects of an information system.
- How security auditing works by testing adherence to internal IT policies and external standards/regulations.
- The purpose of monitoring security logs to detect anomalies and threats, given the large volume of logs generated.
- The benefits of logging, monitoring and reporting which include stronger governance, oversight, security and compliance.
- How management review controls are important for an effective control environment and ensuring accuracy of key security documents.
Rothke secure360 building a security operations center (soc)Ben Rothke
Building a Security Operations Center (SOC) requires extensive planning and consideration of various organizational and technical factors. A SOC provides continuous monitoring, detection, and response capabilities to protect against cyber threats. It is important to determine whether to build an internal SOC or outsource these functions. Proper staffing, processes, metrics, and management are critical for SOC success.
This document provides guidance on areas of interest (AOI) to evaluate for mergers and acquisitions from an information security perspective. It identifies 22 strategic AOIs that security must scope to understand high risk areas, including application and access management, network/DMZ security, host security, data security and privacy, security policies and training, and security operations. Each AOI includes examples of specific areas to examine to identify strengths needing no attention or areas requiring intervention. The goal is to scope projects to understand risks across a broad scope from an information security standpoint.
The document discusses the need for organizations to improve their governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) posture to address expanding data regulations and cyber threats. It outlines key parameters for an effective GRC strategy, including identity-based authentication and authorization controls, understanding business and regulatory drivers, and stakeholder participation. The document also notes specific GRC challenges with legacy applications like PeopleSoft, such as limited logging and visibility, lack of granular access controls and monitoring, and exposure of sensitive data. It introduces the Appsian Security Platform as a solution to enhance PeopleSoft's security and help meet compliance requirements through features like detailed logging, activity monitoring and analytics, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and contextual access controls based on
Security management concepts and principlesDivya Tiwari
The document discusses several key concepts in information security management including:
1. The Systems Security Engineering Capability Maturity Model (SSE-CMM) describes essential security engineering practices across the system lifecycle and aims to advance security as a mature discipline. It defines 5 capability levels.
2. Configuration management is important for securely managing changes to an organization's IT infrastructure and systems. It involves identifying configuration items, controlling changes, and reporting status.
3. The configuration management framework includes configuration items, change control, status reporting, and protection of items from unauthorized changes.
This document discusses different types of security assessments:
1) Technical security testing assesses security flaws through vulnerability assessments, network penetration testing, web application testing, and source code analysis.
2) Security process assessments evaluate weaknesses in security processes by reviewing frameworks like NIST CSF and COBIT.
3) Security audits involve compliance checks both internally and externally to verify proper security controls are in place.
Business case for information security programWilliam Godwin
This document presents a business case for establishing an information security program. It outlines the background, value, scope, and components of the program. The program aims to safeguard corporate information assets, establish security standards, comply with regulations, and align IT services with business needs. It involves categorizing data, determining risk appetite, analyzing business impacts, developing a security strategy and plans, and implementing controls. The goal is to effectively manage risks and threats, drive process maturity over time, and provide continuous improvements.
Incubated in IIT Kharagpur
Focused on addressing data theft, data loss with security analytics from on-premise and cloud platform, product christened as “inDefend” targeted for Enterprise, SMB and End-Consumers
SOC as a Service manages and monitors your logs, devices, network and assets for internal IT teams. It provides skills to combat cybersecurity threats. Get now! - https://mdr.comodo.com/soc-as-a-service.php?afid=10110
This paper discusses the question of optimizing security decisions in an organization, based on the information provided by the technical security infrastructure.
Understanding the security_organizationDan Morrill
This document discusses risks in information security from regulatory, business, technology, and security perspectives. It outlines how decisions are made based on existing contracts and perceived power rather than technical understanding. Risk is defined as threats times vulnerabilities plus the influence of politics and power. Both proactive and reactive security approaches are discussed along with their limitations. Information security challenges include complexity, unknown vulnerabilities, and persistence of hackers. Overall risk management must account for known and unknown threats within organizational politics.
Security Management is very complex and does not limit itself to products and technologies. It is important to consider alternatives when setting up a Security Operation Center (SOC), from insight into the business plan requirements, ability and the skill set of people who will handle the SOC, the responsibilities for the team, budget and more.
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.
Hp arc sight_state of security ops_whitepaperrickkaun
The document summarizes findings from security operations maturity assessments conducted by HP on 69 security operations centers (SOCs) globally since 2008. Key findings include:
1) The average maturity level of SOCs remains below the ideal level of 3 on HP's 5-level scale, with 24% unable to provide consistent security monitoring and only 30% meeting business/compliance goals.
2) Having experienced a public data breach is often the fastest path to a more capable SOC, as companies then have a clear business case for investment.
3) Reliance on technology alone is insufficient - investment in skilled security analysts is also needed to effectively detect and respond to modern threats.
4) Industry alignment can directly impact
The document discusses the key players and organizational structure for security in an enterprise. It outlines that the size of the security team depends on factors like the size of the enterprise, its systems environment, number of components, locations, and risk level. The security organization includes a Chief Information Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Security Officer, coordinators, and an Executive Committee for Security. The roles of each position are described at a high level.
17-MOD 6 Conducting Security Audits & MOD 7 Information Security Audit Prepar...abhichowdary16
This document discusses information security audits and their key features. It describes the different types of security audits and phases of an information security audit. It outlines the audit process, including defining the security perimeter, describing system components, determining threats, and using appropriate tools. It also discusses auditor roles and skills, as well as elements that characterize a good security audit like clearly defined objectives and an experienced independent audit team.
This document explains the need for information security for all organizations and also the standards to be followed for doing the same. It also gives vendor selection criteria for selecting a consultancy firm for information security. It gives guidelines as to how to stop ethical hacking of your web application, be it any critical data from getting hacked, scripts being run, without the knowledge of the owner.
Phi 235 social media security users guide presentationAlan Holyoke
The document provides an overview of various cyber security solutions and concepts. It discusses 13 sections related to cyber security including access control solutions, vulnerability analysis, gap analysis, penetration testing, web application security, log analysis, network traffic analysis, information security policy design, and security products identification. Each section provides 1-3 paragraphs explaining the topic and key considerations.
IT General Controls Presentation at IIA Vadodara Audit ClubKaushal Trivedi
The document discusses threats to information technology systems such as data theft, cyberattacks, and system vulnerabilities. It then provides an overview of information technology general controls (ITGCs) and how they are important for ensuring the secure, stable, and reliable performance of technology systems. Finally, it discusses specific areas of focus for ITGCs such as security management, change management, and testing methodologies.
The document discusses strategies for preventing and protecting against data breaches. It notes that the number of data breaches reached a record high in 2014, with nearly 1 million new malware threats daily. While complete security is impossible, businesses must adapt through cost-effective security solutions. The document recommends asking what is currently being done to prevent breaches, what limitations exist, and how data/systems protection is validated. It advocates layered prevention and protection strategies, including regular security assessments to identify vulnerabilities, encryption of sensitive data, effective backups that facilitate rapid recovery, and ensuring basic tasks like patch and antivirus management are properly performed.
Optimizing Security Operations: 5 Keys to SuccessSirius
Organizations are suffering from cyber fatigue, with too many alerts, too many technologies, and not enough people. Many security operations center (SOC) teams are underskilled and overworked, making it extremely difficult to streamline operations and decrease the time it takes to detect and remediate security incidents.
Addressing these challenges requires a shift in the tactics and strategies deployed in SOCs. But building an effective SOC is hard; many companies struggle first with implementation and then with figuring out how to take their security operations to the next level.
Read to learn:
--Advantages and disadvantages of different SOC models
--Tips for leveraging advanced analytics tools
--Best practices for incorporating automation and orchestration
--How to boost incident response capabilities, and measure your efforts
--How the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and CIS Controls can help you establish a strong foundation
Start building your roadmap to a next-generation SOC.
The document outlines a framework for developing an information security strategy and proposal for an organization. It recommends taking a top-down approach by first identifying the key sectors of people, processes, and technology and then drilling down to specific domains and technologies within each sector. It provides examples of domains such as identity and access management or network security. The framework is meant to help information security officers understand needs, prioritize investments, and develop a proposal to present to top management to obtain approval and funding for security initiatives.
Running Head SECURITY AWARENESSSecurity Awareness .docxtoltonkendal
Running Head: SECURITY AWARENESS
Security Awareness 2
Final Project Security Awareness
Terri Y. Hudson
Southern New Hampshire University – IT 552
December 20, 2016
Agency-wide security awareness Program Proposal
Introduction
For the organization to comply with the current PCT DSS requirement version 12,6, a security awareness program must be in place. The CISCO of the organization has an immediate requirement of creating an agency-wide security awareness program. As a means of implementing security awareness program the organization has conducted a security gap analysis which is one of the component of security awareness program which showed the 10 security findings. As one of the means of conducting the program, I will submit awareness program proposal.
Objective
This SOW (Statement of Work) is being done on behalf of the senior information officer. He has requested for the creation of an agency-wide security awareness program by handing over the security gap analysis which was done prior to this process. Hence the major aim of this document is to set a security awareness program which shows ten major key security findings. The document will also include a risk assessment of the current security awareness practices, processes and practices. By having this document, the organization will be able to have a well-organized maintenance plan. It is also important in maintaining and establishing an information-security awareness program (United States, 2000).
Background
The mission of the organization is to provide efficient IT services with the best security program in place with an aim of protecting organizations assets.
1. Technical infrastructure
The organization is engaged in short-term effort aiming at modernizing its information-processing infrastructure. These efforts have incorporated software enhancements, installation of firewalls and high end network systems for an improved communication. The senior information officer is the one who is responsible top oversee modernization effort. He has of late completed conducting a security awareness program and deployment of the organization’s LAN (Local area Network). The hardware being used is of CISCO products.
2. Computing Environment
The organization’s desktop computers are of Windows 2007/ 98 and 95. The servers are of Pentium with over 1 GB RAM. The current NOS (Network operating system) are window based.
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1. COMPANY SNAPSHOT
• IT services and consulting company founded in 2010
• SBA 8(a) certified company
• Past performances with DoD, DHS, and IC
communities
• Top secret facility clearance
• NSA PISA Program participant
ENG SOLUTIONS NAICS CODES
519190 All Other Information Services
541512 Computer Systems Design Services
541519 Other Computer Related Services
541611 Administrative Management and General
Management Consulting Services
541614 Process, Physical Distribution, and
Logistics Consulting Services
541618 Other Management Consulting Services
541990 All Other Professional, Scientific, and
Technical Services
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ENG Solutions Inc.
www.EngSolutionsIT.com
POC: Hank Eng, President
(CISSP, CISM, CISA)
703.618.9670
hank@engsolutionsit.com
SBA 8(a) Certified Company
TS Facility Clearance
CAGE Code: 6Q0v1
Duns: 868849154
TIN: 27-4310571
2. RISK & SECURITY
COMPLIANCE / AUDIT
READINESS
SECURITY ASSESSMENTS
• Cyber Security
• Enterprise and systems
security
• Security architecture
• User security awareness
training
• Vulnerability management
• Incident response
• Risk management
framework (NIST 800-37)
• Continuous monitoring
(NIST 800-137)
• Information Assurance
(C&A and DIACAP)
• FISCAM, A-123, A-130, SOX,
FIAR support
• Internal controls
• Policies and procedures
development
• Financial statement audit
support
• FISMA support
• Audit readiness support and
training
• Remediation support
• IV&V
• Web / applications
• Penetration testing
(red teaming)
• Security assessments
(blue-teaming)
CORE COMPETENCIES
CURRENT / PAST CUSTOMERS
The United States Coast
Guard (USCG) (Sub to DRC)
The United States Army
Information Technology
Agency (USA ITA) (Sub to L3)
The Department of
Homeland Security
Infrastructure Protection
(DHS IP) (Sub to SRA)
The Defense Logistics Agency
(DLA) (Sub to KPMG)
The Defense Intelligence
Agency (DIA) (Sub to
Accenture Federal Services)
Department of Agriculture
(USDA) (Prime)
Government Accountability
Office (GAO) (Sub to Acuity)
Department of Defense
(DoD) (Sub to CSRA)
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3. SUCCESS STORIES
1. ENG Solutions supported the United States Army
Information Technology Agency (USA ITA) Enterprise
Security contract, ENG Solutions was charged
with developing various security assessment and
inspection programs. Collectively, the mission
of these programs is to improve ITA’s enterprise
security posture and pass all mandated inspections.
The establishment and execution of these programs
had an immediate and positive impact. In 2012, ITA
passed and scored higher marks during its Computer
Network Defense Service Provider (CNDSP)
Inspection. In 2013, ITA passed its Inspector General
(IG) Information Assurance Inspection. Prior to this,
ITA had failed its last five IG inspections spanning
back to 2009. ENG Solutions takes great pride in
being the driving force behind this success story.
2. ENG Solutions supported the United States Coast
Guard (USCG) Audit Remediation contract, the team
provided subject matter expertise in the areas of
information systems audit, weakness remediation,
processimprovement,riskmanagement,certification
and accreditation (C&A), information assurance,
and security continuous monitoring. Specifically,
ENG Solutions developed corrective action plans
to address security control issues identified by the
external auditors (KPMG). In addition, ENG Solutions
developed a continuous monitoring methodology
that provided greater awareness and transparency
in regards to information security controls and
operatingstatuses.Asadirectresultoftheseactivities,
the USCG was able to resolve long-standing issues
(repeat findings), decrease the number of identified
findings (year-over-year), and had the “material
weakness”aspect from the Financial Statement audit
opinion removed.
3.ENG Solutions supported the Defense Intelligence
Agency’s Audit Readiness effort, ENG Solutions
developed and presented a risk-based assessment
approach which was approved by the contracting
officer and government program manager. Once
the approach was implemented, time and level
of effort needed to assess each system was cut by
more than 50% resulting in greater efficiency. This
allowed the system owners more time to develop
correct action plans (CAP) needed to remediate
control weaknesses. ENG Solutions also developed a
systematic approach to weaknesses remediation.
Core Capability Highlight #1 – Internal Controls /
Security Solutions
Many security companies, specifically those with
products to sell put great emphasis on external
threats. They push boundary defense and security
information and event management (SIEM) tools as
the solution to all your information security woes.
However, the facts is, any seasoned professional will
tell you that the greatest risk to an organization’s
security program are the internal users (employees
and contractors). What happens when those
responsibleformanagingthosecontrolsandtoolsfail
to do their jobs – risk to the organization increases!
At ENG Solutions, we understand this. We have
developed solutions and methodologies to address
high impact areas such as access management and
monitoring, user training, and security continuous
monitoring (see core capability #3). We take the time
to understand your issues, perform proper analysis
(root, gap, cost, etc.), and develop appropriate
solutions. Remember, not all problems require a
fancy expensive automated tool.
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4. Core Capability Highlight #2 – Security Assessments
A security assessment can be defined as the
execution of tests procedures (by an independent
third party) to identify gaps, weaknesses, and
vulnerabilities within an organization, system,
application, or specific control. Security assessments
can facilitate a heighten awareness and provide
decision makers with critical information as it
relates to the effectiveness of security controls, risk
management, compliance, and enterprise security
posture (see chart below).
ASSESSMENT
DISCIPLINE
DESCRIPTION MARKET OPPORTUNITIES
Penetration
Testing
(Red Teaming)
A penetration test (PenTest) is an authorized
attack (hack) on a network / system with the
goal of finding security vulnerabilities and
possibly exploiting those vulnerabilities to
determine its impact on the system, network,
and organization. A penetration test may be a
white box (where all background and system
information is provided by the customer) or
black box (where only basic or no information is
provided). PenTests are often used to determine
if a network and / or system is susceptible to
various attacks.
Any industry where customer data,
proprietary information, and sensitive
mission data is being developed, collected,
retained, and processed such as banking,
retail, credit card, insurance, federal
government, defense, intelligence, health,
etc.
Examples of requirements already in place
where security assessment services are
needed to ensure requirements are being
met include:
• Federal Risk and Authorization
Management Program (FedRAMP)
• Sarbanes Oxley (SOX)
• Payment Card Industry (PCI)
• Attestations (SSAE16)
• Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
A-123
• Federal Information Security
Management Act (FISMA)
• Federal Financial Management
Improvement Act (FFMIA)
• Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Technical
Systems
Assessment
(Blue Teaming)
A collaborative (between client and third party
assessor) technical assessment to identify
vulnerabilities within various layers such as the
network, operating system (OS), database, and
application.
Web Application
Security
Assessment
Uses dynamic and static code review to identify
vulnerabilities within web-facing applications
(accessible via the internet).
Internal Controls
Assessment
An assessment to determine the adequateness
of design and operating effectiveness of the
security and internal controls. This assessment
focuses on internal mechanisms, processes,
and procedures in place to protect information
assets.
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5. While many companies focus on one or two of
these disciplines, ENG Solutions can offer the entire
security assessment suite to provide coverage across
all layers of enterprise. This again leads to greater
awareness and transparency regarding the current
state of the organization’s security posture which
in turn allows the organization to better serve its
clients and meet its business obligations (laws and
regulations regarding privacy, financials, health,
customer information, etc.).
Core Capability Highlight #3 – Security Continuous
Monitoring
Security continuous monitoring is NOT simply
deploying automated tools to defense against
external attacks. As a matter of fact – the number of
controlsthatcanbeautomaticallymanagedislimited
in relation to the total number of NIST (National
Institute of Standards andTechnology) controls. NIST
defines ConMon as: maintaining ongoing awareness
of information security, vulnerabilities, and threats
to support organizational risk management
decisions. NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-37, Risk
ManagementFramework(RMF), provides a structured
and repeatable process for which to manage system
and enterprise risks. The RMF consist of six steps:
(1) categorize system, (2) select security controls,
(3) implement security controls, (4) assess security
controls, (5) authorize system, and (6) monitor
security controls. NIST SP 800-137, Information
Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) for Federal
Information Systems and Organizations, is focused
on and expounds upon step 6 of the RMF – monitor
security controls.
While the concept of ConMon is not new, at this
point, adaptation and implementation across federal
and DoD agencies is relatively limited. Additionally,
most implementations are executed at the system
level. In other words, individual system owners
assign resources (ISSO, IAM, IAO, PM, administrators,
etc.) on a system by system basis; therefore control
monitoring is also performed on a system by system
basis. However, to achieve coverage across the entire
organization while also achieving efficiency and cost
savings, ConMon should be implemented at the
enterprise level covering all mission critical systems
and high impact control areas utilizing a risk-based
approach.
ENG Solutions has developed and deployed
continuous monitoring programs for multiple
agenciesincludingArmyITA.Corecomponentsofthe
program include: gaining leadership support (via a
program charter), developing appropriate standards
& procedures, documenting a comprehensive list of
systems & controls, developing meaningful metrics,
implementing automated tools (for transparency
and efficiency), performing root cause analysis,
performing lessons learned exercises, utilizing
POA&Ms and risk exceptions, developing practical
remediation strategies, implementing effective
communication plans, and providing on-going
training to personnel and stakeholders. Through
our ConMon program, ITA has reaped the following
benefits:
• Improved compliance with DoD and Federal
mandates such as the Federal Information
Security Management Act (FISMA)
• Achieved greater visibility into control design and
operating effectiveness
• Ability to provide senior leadership with
information needed to make risk management
decisions
• Implemented corrective actions and process
improvements resulting in a strengthen security
posture
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6. Core Capability Highlight #4 – InformationTechnology / Systems Auditing
From RFP responses to delivery, ENG Solutions has supported many auditing engagements to include: United
Stated Coast Guard Audit Remediation, Defense Logistics Agency Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness
(FIAR), Defense Intelligence Agency FIAR, Department of Defense Education Activity FIAR, and Department of
Transportation Financial Statement Audit. Additionally, ENG Solutions has developed and implemented various
audit methodologies and strategies (risk based testing, root cause analysis, systematic remediation approach,
etc.) in support of FIAR, FISCAM, A-123, A-130, FISMA, and SOX engagements.
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