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Managing Information Security Risks: The OCTAVE (SM) Approach (The SEI Series in Software...
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by Christopher Alberts and Audrey Dorofee
Sales Rank: 587177
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Hardcover: 512 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional July 19, 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321118863
ISBN-13: 978-0321118868
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
Book Info
Provides a systematic way to evaluate and manage information security risks. Illustrates the implementation of self-directed evaluations. Shows how to tailor evaluation methods to different types of organizations.
Back Cover Copy
Information security requires far more than the latest tool or technology. Organizations must understand exactly what they are trying to protect--and why--before selecting specific solutions. Security issues are complex and often are rooted in organizational and business concerns. A careful evaluation of security needs and risks in this broader context must precede any security implementation to insure that all the relevant, underlying problems are first uncovered.
The OCTAVE approach for self-directed security evaluations was developed at the influential CERT(R) Coordination Center. This approach is designed to help you: - Identify and rank key information assets
- Weigh threats to those assets
- Analyze vulnerabilities involving both technology and practices
OCTAVE(SM) enables any organization to develop security priorities based on the organization's particular business concerns. The approach provides a coherent framework for aligning security actions with overall objectives.
Managing Information Security Risks, written by the developers of OCTAVE, is the complete and authoritative guide to its principles and implementations. The book: - Provides a systematic way to evaluate and manage information security risks
- Illustrates the implementation of self-directed evaluations
- Shows how to tailor evaluation methods to different types of organizations
Special features of the book include: - A running example to illustrate important concepts and techniques
- A convenient set of evaluation worksheets
- A catalog of best practices to which organizations can compare their own
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Customer Reviews & Comments
The OCTAVE approach is an effective and proven approach to security risk management, and this book distills the documentation that is available from SEI's CERT/CC group into a succinct, clearly written description of OCTAVE and associated processes. OCTAVE stands for "Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability Evaluation", which focuses specifically on business or organizational critical success factors and operational postures. This differs slightly from traditional vulnerability assessments, which are wider in scope, and auditing, which is based on policies and due diligence. While there seems to be little distinction on the surface, as you read this book you discover that OCTAVE's focus and philosophy is akin to Pareto analysis in that you narrow the scope to business success and operational factors. The book is divided into three main parts: I - Introduction (introduces OCTAVE and describes the basics). II - OCTAVE Method (explains the method, how to identify organizational knowledge, create threat profiles, identify key components, select components for evaluation, conduct a risk analysis, develop and select a strategy). III - Variations and tailoring strategies. In addition to the main sections the appendices are valuable. They include case studies, worksheets and a catalog of the eight OCTAVE processes. Note that OCTAVE is intended for organizations in excess of 300 people, although OCTAVE-S (briefly covered in Part III) is a scaled down version of the main approach. There is also a version of OCTAVE that addresses outsourcing, but was skimmed over very quickly in the book. The book is an excellent guide to OCTAVE, and, in my opinion, OCTAVE itself is a viable approach to information security risk management.
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