The Decision-Making Process

The next few pages will guide us through a process that will greatly simplify and enhance our security decisions. Having studied the techniques and theories discussed so far in this book, we will now put them to practical use through the following steps:

  • Identify the components of a security issue
  • Identify the risks and threats
  • Walk through our list of rules, briefly taking each into consideration
  • Make the proper decision

Identify the Components

When a decision needs to be made, we must first discover and isolate the various components involved. Doing so will help to ensure that multiple aspects of security are considered. Almost every situation we face consists of several important components bound in some form of relationship. ...

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