Designing and building a security operations center / David Nathans ; designer, Matthew Limbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nathans, David, author.

Contributor:

Limbert, Matthew, designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Waltham, Massachusetts : Syngress, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Do you know what weapons are used to protect against cyber warfare and what tools to use to minimize their impact? How can you gather intelligence that will allow you to configure your system to ward off attacks? Online security and privacy issues are becoming more and more significant every day, with many instances of companies and governments mishandling (or deliberately misusing) personal and financial data. Organizations need to be committed to defending their own assets and their customers' information. Designing and Building a Security Operations Center will show you how to develop t

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Author Biography; Technical Editor Biography; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 - Efficient operations; Defining an operations center; Purpose of the operations center; Emergency operations center; Mission operations center; Threat operations center; Network operations center; Let us build a SOC!; Technology phase; Organizational phase; Policy phase; Operational phase; Intelligence phase; Plan your SOC; Logs; Event; Alerts; False positive; True positive; False negative; True negative; Incidents; Problems; Define your requirements; Summary

Chapter 2 - Identify your customersInternal versus external customers; Human resources; Legal; Audit; Engineering/R&D; IT; External customers; Customer objectives; Service level agreements; Build and document your use cases; Use case: unauthorized modification of user accounts; Stakeholders: compliance and audit departments; Use case: disabled user account reactivated; Stakeholders: HR and IT; Use case: any IDS event that scores over a severity of 7; Use case: AV failure; Stakeholders: desktop support team, IT server management teams; Use case: security device outage

Stakeholders: security and ITUse case rule summary; Use case: top vulnerabilities detected in the network; Stakeholders: security, IT, audit, and management; Use case reporting summary; Expectations; Chapter 3 - Infrastructure; Organizational infrastructure > operations infrastructure > support infrastructure; Organizational security infrastructure; Perimeter defenses; Network defense; Host defenses; Application defenses; Data defense; Policies and procedures; Security architecture; SIEM/log management; Operation center infrastructure; Ticketing systems; Building the ticket system; Subject

Parsed values from eventsTime ticket created; User\group\queue; Source (SIEM, email, phone); Category; Status; Reason codes; Acknowledgment/ticket feedback; Workflow and automation; Portal interface; Mobile devices; Support infrastructure; Physical; Private SOC network; Video walls; Video projectors; Labs; Chapter 4 - Organizational structure; Different reporting lines; Legal; CISO; CIO; Compliance; SOC organization; Engineering; Security architecture; Security monitoring and analysis; Responsibility; Authority; Fulfilling needs; Chapter 5 - Your most valuable resource is your people

Operational securityCulture; Personality; Core skill sets; Analysts; Security analyst-job description; Security engineering; Security operations engineer-job description; Security architect; Security architect-job description; SOC team lead; SOC team lead-job description; SOC management; SOC manager-job description; SOC games; Special projects; Do not forget your people; Chapter 6 - Daily operations; Problem and change event communications; Master station logs; Shift turn overs; Daily operations calls; Critical bridges; IR; Detection; Confirmation; Analysis; Containment; Recovery; Review

Communication plan

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 9, 2014).

ISBN:

9780128010969

0128010967

OCLC:

897934304