Maximum Security, Third Edition

Chapter 3. Building a Roadmap for Securing Your Enterprise

In This Chapter

• Proactive Versus Reactive Models

• Benchmarking Your Current Security Posture

• Identifying Digital Assets

• Protecting Assets

• Incident Response

• Training Users and Administrators

• Tying It All Together

This chapter will arm you with the guidelines necessary to survive the information security onslaught. The odds are stacked in this battle, and not in the favor of the defenders. If there is to be any hope of coming out of the war victorious, you need a serious strategy. This chapter is designed to give you an introduction to that strategy in the form of an information security roadmap.

Proactive Versus Reactive Models

We have a saying in the consulting field in regard to IT security spending: ...