Secrets and strategies for protecting your network before trouble strikes

Create and implement a successful security system and recovery plan with help from this insightful and practical resource. This detailed guide provides you with a complete roadmap for developing an effective end-to-end security program. You’ll even discover numerous methods for proactively protecting your network before a security breach occurs--saving you time, effort, and money in the long run. Covering the earliest phases of plan development, team organization and training, to technology deployment and incident recovery strategies, this book combines in-depth conceptual explanations with hands-on checklists at the end of every chapter. Definitive, authoritative, and up to date, this book is an invaluable tool in the ongoing and often challenging task of maintaining network security.

• Understand the laws and regulations affecting information security programs
• Deploy new projects and technologies in a cost-effective manner
• Define requirements and establish policies and procedures for your organization
• Respond to incidents and disasters in a systematic fashion to minimize loss or damage to valuable data
• Learn to identify, hire--and keep--security professionals and establish the reporting structure for the information security department
• Introduce human controls, including staff awareness, to help improve security
• Discover how audits and penetration tests can help in assessing risk
• Assemble an incident response team and set priorities and goals for each member