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DS5.5 - Security Testing, Surveillance and Monitoring

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Security Testing, Surveillance and Monitoring

Test and monitor the IT security implementation in a proactive way. IT security should be reaccredited in a timely manner to ensure that the approved enterprise’s information security baseline is maintained. A logging and monitoring function will enable the early prevention and/or detection and subsequent timely reporting of unusual and/or abnormal activities that may need to be addressed.

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  • Staff experienced in security testing and monitoring of IT systems
  • Regularly reviewed security level
  • Deviations from business requirements highlighted
  • Security breaches detected proactively
  Risk Drivers
  • Misuse of users’ accounts, compromising organisational security
  • Undetected security breaches
  • Unreliable security logs

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  1. Implement monitoring, testing, reviews and other controls to:
    • Promptly prevent/detect errors in the results of processing
    • Promptly identify attempted, successful and unsuccessful security breaches and incidents
    • Detect security events and thereby prevent security incidents by using detection and prevention technologies
    • Determine whether the actions taken to resolve a breach of security are effective
  2. Conduct effective and efficient security testing procedures at regular intervals to:
    • Verify that identity management procedures are effective
    • Verify that user account management is effective
    • Validate that security-relevant system parameter settings are defined correctly and are in compliance with the information security baseline
    • Validate that network security controls/settings are configured properly and are in compliance with the information security baseline
    • Validate that security monitoring procedures are working properly
    • Consider, where necessary, obtaining expert reviews of the security perimeter

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Volume 3, 2013
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Volume 2, 2013
by Steven J. Ross, CISA, CISSP, MBCP
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Volume 1, 2013
by Steven J. Ross, CISA, CISSP, MBCP
Emerging cyberattacks against the US’s critical infrastructures are rapidly outstripping the ability of security and risk management professionals to maintain high availability and uptime assurances.
Volume 6, 2012
by Stewart Hayes, Malcolm Shore and Miles Jakeman, Ph.D.
The Internet has a well-earned reputation as a hostile environment, and the growth of organised cybercrime is evidence that there is not enough being done to manage the risk.
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