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Infosec Strategies and Best Practices
Infosec Strategies and Best Practices

Infosec Strategies and Best Practices: Gain proficiency in information security using expert-level strategies and best practices

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Key benefits

  • Convert the theory of your security certifications into actionable changes to secure your organization
  • Discover how to structure policies and procedures in order to operationalize your organization's information security strategy
  • Learn how to achieve security goals in your organization and reduce software risk

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Information security and risk management best practices enable professionals to plan, implement, measure, and test their organization's systems and ensure that they're adequately protected against threats. The book starts by helping you to understand the core principles of information security, why risk management is important, and how you can drive information security governance. You'll then explore methods for implementing security controls to achieve the organization's information security goals. As you make progress, you'll get to grips with design principles that can be utilized along with methods to assess and mitigate architectural vulnerabilities. The book will also help you to discover best practices for designing secure network architectures and controlling and managing third-party identity services. Finally, you will learn about designing and managing security testing processes, along with ways in which you can improve software security. By the end of this infosec book, you'll have learned how to make your organization less vulnerable to threats and reduce the likelihood and impact of exploitation. As a result, you will be able to make an impactful change in your organization toward a higher level of information security.

Who is this book for?

If you are looking to begin your career in an information security role, then this book is for you. Anyone who is studying to achieve industry-standard certification such as the CISSP or CISM, but looking for a way to convert concepts (and the seemingly endless number of acronyms) from theory into practice and start making a difference in your day-to-day work will find this book useful.

What you will learn

  • Understand and operationalize risk management concepts and important security operations activities
  • Discover how to identify, classify, and maintain information and assets
  • Assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in information systems
  • Determine how security control testing will be undertaken
  • Incorporate security into the SDLC (software development life cycle)
  • Improve the security of developed software and mitigate the risks of using unsafe software

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Dwayne Natwick Sep 26, 2023
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I had the opportunity to take a look at Packt Publishing's InfoSec Strategies and Best Practices by Joseph MacMillan - Cybersecurity Global Black Belt. This book provides a comprehensive handbook for building a strong cybersecurity program with integrated risk analysis and risk management strategies. Joseph does an amazing job of breaking down complex concepts in a simplistic form that is easy for even the novice reader to follow. This is an essential book for anyone that is looking for a playbook for architecting, monitoring, and managing InfoSec within your organization.
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Henrik Sep 17, 2021
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Joseph describes himself as a technological utopian and cybersecurity junkie. As an author I would describe him as a no-nonsense cybersecurity professional and this book is a testament to that.The book is non-pretentious and an easily readable crash-course in risk management, mitigation and how to operationalize your cyber-security. It’s on the top my worktable as reference book and when I hit a dead-end in my work I would flip through the pages and think – what would Joseph say? And normally this book would give some hints to how to move on for me and I believe this book can help you too!
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Jeremy Lantry Sep 17, 2021
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I recently was given the opportunity to review this book by Packt and am appreciative of such.As a student, it is imperative that I gain the skills necessary to pursue a career in cybersecurity and this book gives a good baseline of what people should know and how to implement certain systems. This book gives ample detail of pertinent topics and is informative and digestible.Some books end up being too technical or not technical enough, but I think this book bridges that line pretty well, but maybe could lean more toward the more technical side since it is geared toward a more professional demographic.Overall, this book was a great top-level view of how information security is implemented in enterprise environments and I feel this will help me going forward in my professional career.
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Different State May 21, 2021
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If you're new to the information security industry, or a need a good refreshment guide on current best practices, this is an excellent manual. Clearly written, with good examples and content thats not too dry, it also keeps the reading fresh and entertaining. Anyone coming into the infosec industry would find this a great guide, laying out not only the basics of this business (founding ideas, terminology etc) but goes into great detail about how to manage the workload and improve the processes. It would almost certainly be a good idea for many people already established in the industry to read this to catch any shortcomings and avoid common pitfalls! Overall an excellent book.
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Clearly the author has put a great deal of effort into his research. The content is topical, clear and concise with a good deal of entertainment. Highly recommended!
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