Author: Chris Cronin, ISO 27001 Auditor Too often in information security we focus on the confidentiality of personal information, ignoring the damage that can result from failures in integrity and availability. In fact, this is the main driver of much of our information security spending in the U.S. But the proper function of information and communications […]
Information security laws and regulations are telling us to conduct cyber security risk assessments before we develop our security and compliance programs. They insist on this so our security goals are meaningful to each of us, rather than aspiring to a generic list of controls that were written by experts who never met us and […]
Managers often think about compliance in terms of policies. There is something concrete, achievable and finite about them. And they are required by laws and regulations for protecting information and systems. But too often managers think of policies as a finish line for compliance. Need to be compliant? Then write a bunch of new policies […]
Last week I presented a topic here at Halock’s blog site on the Hand Rule, also known as the “Calculus of Negligence.” The basic message of the post was that we can use information risk assessments to help us keep our security costs to a reasonable level, but only by describing how we would arrive […]
While preparing for a keynote talk at CAMP IT that is rapidly coming up I was struggling to find the main point of my talk. I had been puzzling for several weeks, asking myself what single message I wanted to leave my audience with. I’ve been speaking for some time now about information security and […]
Perfect security is not possible, feasible nor required by law. In fact, information security laws and regulations require that we provide “reasonable and appropriate” security through a well-defined risk management process. Without a risk-based approach, organizations attempt to address information security requirements by either attempting to comply with a long list of security controls, or […]
We talk a lot with our clients about the importance of due care and due diligence and how it impacts your infrastructure, especially when it comes to compliance and risk management. In order to perform proper due diligence, it’s important to understand the nature of the attacks being directed against your infrastructure, the motivation behind […]
As stated in a previous post, effective Data Loss Prevention (DLP) will be an important component of an overall Risk Management Framework. The Risk Management framework should include the following: