• Security Administration Practices
  Security administration entails the determination of a company's information assets and the creation, documentation, and carrying out of policies, operations, standards. Administration techniques such as data classification and threat analysis can be used to determine possible threats, categorize assets, and rate security weaknesses so that appropriate measures can be put in place.

• Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
  This concerns the principles, framework, and standards followed to build, track, and secure OS platforms, equipment, networks, and applications plus the controls used to enforce different levels of robustness, integrity, and confidentiality.

• Access Control Solutions and Processes
  Access management systems are a collection of technologies that operate together to build a security infrastructure to guard the high-value data of the information network.

• Software Development Security
  This addresses the key security concepts that apply to software development. Software development security outlines the circumstances where software is designed and developed and elucidates the critical part software has in ensuring IT network protection.

• Secure Operations
  This has to do with determining the controls over hardware, data storage, and the operators and managers with access privileges to these assets. Audit and monitoring are the mechanisms and facilities that allow the identification of security-related events and consequent actions to identify the key elements and report the pertinent data to the appropriate person, team, or mechanism.

• Site Security
  Site security provides security techniques for the entire physical facility, from the perimeter to the desk, including all of the IT network resources.

• Data Encryption
  Cryptography involves the concepts, means, and methods of disguising information to preserve its integrity, privacy, and authenticity.

• Telecom, LAN and Internet Security
  This area has to do with:
  • Network Infrastructure
  • Transmission mechanisms
  • Transport formats
  • Security techniques used to provide reliability, consistency, and privacy
  • Authentication for traffic over private and public networks and media.

• Disaster Recovery Preparedness
  The Business Continuity Plan (BCP) addresses the protection and restoration of commercial activity after network disruptions.

• Law, Investigation and Ethics
  This involves:
  • Computer crime regulations
  • The measures taken and technologies utilized to solve computer crime activity

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