This book provides comprehensive methodology, enabling the staff charged with an IT security audit to create a sound framework, allowing them to meet the challenges of compliance in a way that aligns with both business and technical needs. This "roadmap" provides a way of interpreting complex, often confusing, compliance requirements within the larger scope of an organization's overall needs.
Key Features:
* The ulitmate guide to making an effective security policy and controls that enable monitoring and testing against them
* The most comprehensive IT compliance template available, giving detailed information on testing all your IT security, policy and governance requirements
* A guide to meeting the minimum standard, whether you are planning to meet ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPPA, FISCAM, COBIT or any other IT compliance requirement
* Both technical staff responsible for securing and auditing information systems and auditors who desire to demonstrate their technical expertise will gain the knowledge, skills and abilities to apply basic risk analysis techniques and to conduct a technical audit of essential information systems from this book
* This technically based, practical guide to information systems audit and assessment will show how the process can be used to meet myriad compliance issues
1. Chapter 1. Introduction to IT Compliance 2. Chapter 2. Evolution of Information Systems 3. Chapter 3. The Information Systems Audit Program 4. Chapter 4. Planning 5. Chapter 5. Information Gathering 6. Chapter 6. Security Policy Overview 7. Chapter 7. Policy Issues and Fundamentals 8. Chapter 8. Assessing Security Awareness and Knowledge of Policy 9. Chapter 9. An Introduction to Network Audit 10. Chapter 10. Auditing Cisco Routers and Switches 11. Testing the Firewall 12. Chapter 12. Auditing and Security with Wireless Technologies 13. Chapter 13. Analyzing the Results 14. Chapter 14. An Introduction to Systems Auditing 15. Chapter 15. Database Auditing 16. Chapter 16. Microsoft Windows Security and Audits 17. Chapter 17. Auditing UNIX and Linux 18. Chapter 18. Auditing Web-Based Applications 19. Chapter 19. Other Systems 20. Chapter 20. Risk Management, Security Compliance, and Audit Controls 21. Chapter 21. Information Systems Legislation 22. Chapter 22. Operations Security 23. Index
This book provides comprehensive methodology, enabling the staff charged with an IT security audit to create a sound framework, allowing them to meet the challenges of compliance in a way that aligns with both business and technical needs. This "roadmap" provides a way of interpreting complex, often confusing, compliance requirements within the larger scope of an organization's overall needs.
Key Features:
* The ulitmate guide to making an effective security policy and controls that enable monitoring and testing against them
* The most comprehensive IT compliance template available, giving detailed information on testing all your IT security, policy and governance requirements
* A guide to meeting the minimum standard, whether you are planning to meet ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPPA, FISCAM, COBIT or any other IT compliance requirement
* Both technical staff responsible for securing and auditing information systems and auditors who desire to demonstrate their technical expertise will gain the knowledge, skills and abilities to apply basic risk analysis techniques and to conduct a technical audit of essential information systems from this book
* This technically based, practical guide to information systems audit and assessment will show how the process can be used to meet myriad compliance issues
1. Chapter 1. Introduction to IT Compliance 2. Chapter 2. Evolution of Information Systems 3. Chapter 3. The Information Systems Audit Program 4. Chapter 4. Planning 5. Chapter 5. Information Gathering 6. Chapter 6. Security Policy Overview 7. Chapter 7. Policy Issues and Fundamentals 8. Chapter 8. Assessing Security Awareness and Knowledge of Policy 9. Chapter 9. An Introduction to Network Audit 10. Chapter 10. Auditing Cisco Routers and Switches 11. Testing the Firewall 12. Chapter 12. Auditing and Security with Wireless Technologies 13. Chapter 13. Analyzing the Results 14. Chapter 14. An Introduction to Systems Auditing 15. Chapter 15. Database Auditing 16. Chapter 16. Microsoft Windows Security and Audits 17. Chapter 17. Auditing UNIX and Linux 18. Chapter 18. Auditing Web-Based Applications 19. Chapter 19. Other Systems 20. Chapter 20. Risk Management, Security Compliance, and Audit Controls 21. Chapter 21. Information Systems Legislation 22. Chapter 22. Operations Security 23. Index
