Security Management Strategies for the CIOAccess "Warning Lights"
This article is part of the April 2005 issue of Spotlight on the incident response hot seat
TECHKNOWLEDGE Evolving risk dashboards will tell how secure you are and when something's wrong. A car's dashboard provides drivers with all the information they need to operate their vehicle--speed, fuel level, temperature, oil pressure and the all-encompassing "check engine" light. The concept of a security dashboard is very much the same: Under a single pane of glass, a security manager can see the vital statistics in a simple format that reflects the operating efficiency of his defenses, threats, exposures, policy compliance and incident alerts. An example is a display that shows the relationship between a known vulnerability, the number of exposed systems and the staff's remediation progress. Many security vendors offer dashboards for their point solutions, or their products integrate with complementary solutions to show rudimentary intelligence. The state of the art in security dashboards is more focused on events (what's happening now) than posture (what's happening over time). The dream is to have a risk management dashboard that provides snapshot ... Access >>>
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Secure Reads: The Executive Guide to Information Security
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Security information management review: Security Threat Manager 3.0
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Hot Pick: Sentryware's HIVE 3.0
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Warning Lights
Evolving risk dashboards will tell how secure you are and when something's wrong.
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Rights of Passage
Our tests found that most endpoint security products will enforce policy and network access. Their differences are in the details.
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Secure Reads: The Executive Guide to Information Security
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Intrusion Prevention: Top Layer's Attack Mitigator IPS 5500
Attack Mitigator IPS 5500
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Antivirus: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Business Optimal 5.0
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Recent Releases: Security product briefs, April 2005
Learn about the information security products released in April 2005.
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Ready For Takeoff
Cutting costs was the only way to keep United Airlines flying high. Rich Perez's answer was to rebuild the network.
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Damage Control
ChoicePoint's Rich Baich faced the perfect storm: a huge security breach, intense media attention and a shareholder revolt. What he needed was an incident response plan to get him out of the hot seat.
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Intrusion Prevention: Top Layer's Attack Mitigator IPS 5500
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On The Radar
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Perspectives: Is HIPAA DOA?
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Ping: James Duffy
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Editor's Desk: Identity anxiety
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