Unit 5 Tasks Of Continuous Monitoring

Both Security Management and Prevention are categories that should be included in any review or audit process of IT systems. SM reviews how security is managed from the top down. The how and if management supports the ISMS program is identified. The overall management of the company and how services are provided are essential. Prevention looks at the performance and maintenance of IT systems and the reporting of these processes. It is extremely important to have these categories as part of the ISMS process and any review of these processes.

An effective information security program should include, periodic assessments of risk, including the magnitude of harm that could result from the unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction of information and information systems that support the operations and assets of the organization. Policies and procedures should be based on risk assessments, cost effective reduced information security risk, and it should ensure that the information security is addressed throughout the entire life cycle of each and every organizational information system. Subordinate plans for providing sufficient information security for groups of the information system, facilities, networks, or information systems.

The Department of Commerce (DOC) is required to implement an Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) Program as mandated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum 14-03. The memorandum requires Federal agencies to manage information security risk on an ongoing basis. This document provides a high-level DOC-wide strategic plan for maintaining ongoing awareness of information security, vulnerabilities, and threats to support organizational risk management decisions. Otherwise known as information security continuous monitoring or ISCM, this strategic plan promotes informed and actionable risk management decisions; empowers leaders and improves organizational accountability; simplifies regulatory compliance through integrated

Assess the adequacy and effectiveness of the organization’s IS security policy. In addition, assess whether the control requirements specified in the organization’s IS security standards adequately protect the information assets of the organization. At a minimum, the standards should specify the following controls and require them to be applicable to all information systems:

Some of the items that will need to be made aware of and shared with executives, employee and the stakeholders of the organization is the managing and protection of Access Control and attack monitoring system, each and every member of the company will need to understand and abide by the policies that govern access control in the workplace, allowing other employees to enter a facility without each employee scanning their badges will be a breach of security. The awareness of securing network architecture and network communications components, raise awareness on security governance concepts and policies and risk and personal management. The support of the entire organization in the changes and improvement will results in an effective strategic

The purpose of each control on the Sphere of Protection is to protect the valuable information and information systems assets. The focus of each control is management, operational, and technical controls in which sums up the sphere of protection.  Management controls cover security processes designed by strategic planners and performed by security administration (2) Operational controls deal with operational functionality of security in organization and (3) Lastly, technical controls address tactical and technical implementations related to designing and implementing security in

Implementation -Implement procedures for existing authentication, access, controls, encryption, and backup. Security features should be configured enabled and verified. A final security review should be performed and engineer staff should test functionality and watch for any errors in configuration at this stage. A monitoring response plan can be put in place so IT knows the procedures when dealing with security breaches.

It is a responsibility of the primary entity to assess the vendor’s continued compliance with information security regulatory and contractual requirements”. Consequently, security compliance monitoring must be established into the primary entity’s risk management plan. This monitoring should be performed on a continuous basis to track and identify vulnerabilities and problematic issues or potential breaches (Hernandez, 2015).

The first step of security provision ensures the organization can create the systems needed to protect and guard itself through impingements. Then, operation defense maintains the system. Ongoing protection and defense ensures constant vigilance against threats through screening and testing. Investigations ensure that when events do occur they can be properly attended to; collection and operationalization ensures that gathered data can be used to develop intelligence. During the analysis phase, this evidence can be used to further refine intelligence

My first critical thinking will be discussing and analyzing windows system and secure access control. In addition, I will be pretending that I am a manager in a big international organization and my duty is to assess the organization’s information systems and security controls. In the first part, I will be giving full definitions for the three following terminology which are identification, authentication, and authorization. In the second part, I will be searching whether or not I would use Windows ACLs and explain reasons. In the third part, I will be evaluating and choosing preferable practices for managing Microsoft Windows and application vulnerabilities. In the last part, I will be mentioning my point of view and will be finishing my

All organizations should have an effective IT security policy framework to creating a security program to meet the needs of the organization to protect information and their information systems. There are many security frameworks that can be used to design an IT security program such as NIST and COBIT being a few. It is very important to establishing compliance of IT security controls with U.S. laws and regulation. The organization can align the policies and controls with the regulations. There are seven domain in the framework and each have their own challenges. There are issues and challenges with implementing a security policy framework and ways to overcome these problems.

Every organization has risks and it is extremely critical for them to identify what these risks are and to mitigate and avoid further damages in case of disastrous events. These disastrous events can be prevented by designing and implementing a robust security monitoring system and utilizing industry proven practices and activities. Information Security refers to safety of information in terms of confidentiality, integrity, availability, and non-repudiation (Byrnes & Proctor, 2002). This document will provide a clear definition about the security monitoring activities that should be designed and conducted in an organization that has both internal and

There has been a long need for IS governance within organizations. Information security governance is important to organizations because they have a real need to change their views on IT functions and not just consider them to be solely technical issues. There are four value streams in the IT value chain that the IS role supports. Those four steams are as follows: the strategy to portfolio, the requirement to deploy, the request to fulfill and detect to correct. These four value streams are at the center of the service model. They work together and play a vital role then it comes to the support or the supply chain.

The way Information Assurance works is by analyzing information contained on Network Systems, then assigning the information into corresponding threat level classifications. These classifications will be based on the following factors; “what potential value does the information hold to an organization?” and “would the subsequent release of said information cause damage to an organization and how much?” Once these evaluations have been done an organization can move on to the next step, addressing vulnerabilities of Network Systems that contain critical information. As the vulnerability assessment takes place weaknesses that are discovered should be discussed amongst security administrators. The overall outcome of this would be to patch security flaws in the system to better protect assets. At the same time administrators analyze the potential cause and effect of a potential breach in security. While in a perfect world all vulnerabilities would be addressed and fixed, but with the ever evolving technology of the 21st century and the intellect of those individuals who look to abuse their knowledge to gain unauthorized access to systems. The reality is that vulnerabilities (i.e. loopholes, exploits, etc.) will always exist it is just a matter of who finds it. The most important part of the Information Assurance process is this, eliminate all known vulnerabilities while conducting analysis to reduce

For managing and administering an organization, an Information Security System (ISMS) has become extremely significant and its importance is also quite apparent. The reason behind its increasing significance is the mounting pressure and danger to the reliability, safekeeping, accessibility and privacy of the information of the organization. It is also rising directly with the life time and size of the organization, therefore, this information security system is highly preferred. The information resources should be guarded by the organization by adopting suitable measures.