Monday, October 7, 2013

Security governance

Top down approach
Management comes up with a policy.
We then implement the policy.

Strategic is a long term, you alin it with the goals missions usually 5 years
Tactical plan, 1 year
Operational plans 

Global
Standards, baselines, guideline and procedure

Security governance a combination of security and management.
Managed by a committee

Senior manager
Professional
Data owner
Custodian
Auditor

Layers defense in depth
Abstract them
Data hiding - lower can't access
Encryption hiding it from unintended users

Privacy requirements compliance.
Individual rights
organization rights.
HIPAA
SOX
PCI DSS

Planning to plan
COBIT and ITIL
DUE cARE is using care
Due dilligence is performing those actions that are in the CARE

CIA
Identity of the user
Authenticating the user
Authorizing him to access items
Auditing his access usage
Accountability to hold him accountable.
Non repudiation so he can't deny it.


Security polocy
Regulatory for the industry
Advisory advises what to do
Informative about a subject

Acceptable use policy


Standard
Baseline - minimum
Guidelines of how to use.

Procedures
Change only the affected part.

Change control in an orderly manor.
Parallel run of a system at the same time.


Top secret
Secret
Confidential
Sensitive but unclassified
Unclassified

Risk and people.
Third party running gvernance they give you the right to operate.

Asset
Asset value $
Vulnerability to attack
Exposure   a vulnerability
Risk  the risk of the  item
Safeguard  - countermeasure
Attack
Breach an attach that worked.


Value
Qualitative  or quantitative
Quantity
Asset Value
EF     chance of something happening in %
SLE    AV*EF
ARO   how many times SLE in a year
ALE    ARO * SLE

Safeguard

Safeguard cost


Qualitative.
Relies on people judgement.
Delphi is a anonymous

Handle the risk
Mitigate
Assign to sombeody
Accept it
Reject


Separate duty
Separate responsibility
Rotation

Background check
Control third party vendor
Terminate employee

Train people by making them aware.
Educate by giving more knowledge.


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