Lessons Learned: Critical Information Infrastructure Protection - How to protect critical information infrastructure
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Format: Softcover
ISBN13: 9781849289573
BIC: COMPUTER SECURITY, COMPUTING & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BISAC: COMPUTERS / Security / General, COMPUTERS / General, COMPUTERS / Security / Network Security
Published: 23 Jan 2018
Availability: In Stock
"I loved the quotes at the beginning of each chapter – very interesting and thought-provoking. I also enjoyed the author’s style and his technical expertise shone through."
Christopher Wright, Wright CandA Consulting Ltd
Protecting critical information infrastructure (CII) is not an easy process. Risks need to be minimised and systems adequately protected. It is an endless balancing act, where one side is constantly on the defensive and the other on the offensive. Lessons Learned: Critical Information Infrastructure Protection aims to help you be as successful as possible in protecting your CII, and do so quickly with minimum effort, irrespective of whether you work for a critical infrastructure service provider, a company that organises the provision of critical infrastructure services, or a company that serves critical service providers.
Drawing on more than 20 years of experience in the IT and cyber security sectors, the author defines critical infrastructure services and provides structured lessons for each chapter, summarising each with key takeaways, including how to:
- Describe the critical infrastructure service and determine its service level;
- Identify and analyse the interconnections and dependencies of information systems;
- Create a functioning organisation to protect CII; and
- Train people to make sure they are aware of cyber threats and know the correct behaviour.
The key message – organisations must be prepared to provide critical infrastructure services without IT systems – is reinforced in the final chapter: “We must have some way of continuing to work even if computers fail”, writes Mikko Hypponen.
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- Lesson 1: Define critical infrastructure services.
- Lesson 2: Describe the critical infrastructure service and determine its service level.
- Lesson 3: Define the providers of critical infrastructure services.
- Lesson 4: Identify the critical activities, resources and responsible persons needed to provide the critical infrastructure service.
- Lesson 5: Analyse and identify the interdependencies of services and their reliance upon power supplies.
- Lesson 6: Visualise critical infrastructure data.
- Lesson 7: Identify important information systems and assess their importance.
- Lesson 8: Identify and analyse the interconnections and dependencies of information systems.
- Lesson 9: Focus on more critical services and prioritise your activities.
- Lesson 10: Identify threats and vulnerabilities.
- Lesson 11: Assess the impact of service disruptions.
- Lesson 12: Assess the risks associated with the service and information system.
- Lesson 13: Implement the necessary security measures.
- Lesson 14: Create a functioning organisation to protect CII.
- Lesson 15: Follow regulations to improve the cyber resilience of critical infrastructure services.
- Lesson 16: Assess the security level of your information systems yourself and ask external experts to assess them as well.
- Lesson 17: Scan networks yourself and ask external experts to scan them as well to find the systems that shouldn’t be connected to the Internet but still are.
- Lesson 18: Prepare business continuity and disaster recovery plans and test them at reasonable intervals.
- Lesson 19: Establish reliable relations and maintain them.
- Lesson 20: Share information and be a part of networks where information is shared.
- Lesson 21: Train people to make sure they are aware of cyber threats and know the correct behaviour.
- Lesson 22: If the CII protection system does not work as planned or give the desired output, make improvements.
- Lesson 23: Be prepared to provide critical infrastructure services without IT systems. If possible, reduce dependence on IT systems. If possible, during a crisis, provide critical services at reduced functionality and/or in reduced volumes.