NIST 800-53 (INFORMATION SECURITY)

The selection and implementation of appropriate security controls for an information system4 or a system-of-systems5 are important tasks that can have major implications on the operations6 and assets of an organization7 as well as the welfare of individuals and the Nation. Security controls are the management, operational, and technical safeguards or countermeasures employed within an organizational information system to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system and its information. There are several important questions that should be answered by organizational officials when addressing the security considerations for t

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Download Kali Linux Social Engineering

This book contains instructions on how to perpetrate attacks with Kali Linux. These tasks are likely to be illegal in your jurisdiction in many circumstances, or at least count as a terms of service violation or professional misconduct. The instructions are provided so that you can test your system against threats, understand the nature of those threats, and protect your own systems from similar attacks. The information security environment has changed vastly over the years. Now, in spite of having security policies, compliance, and infrastructure security elements such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, proxies, and honey pots deployed inside every organizat

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Kali Linux : Assuring Security by Penetration Testing

Kali Linux is a penetration testing and security auditing platform with advanced tools to identify, detect, and exploit any vulnerabilities uncovered in the target network environment. Applying an appropriate testing methodology equipped with well-defined business objectives and a scheduled test plan will result in the robust penetration testing of your network. Kali Linux – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing is a fully focused, structured book that provides guidance on developing practical penetration testing skills by demonstrating the cutting-edge hacker tools and techniques in a coherent step-by-step strategy. It offers all the essential

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Backtrack 5 Cookbook

BackTrack is a Linux-based penetration testing arsenal that aids security professionals in the ability to perform assessments in a purely native environment dedicated to hacking. BackTrack is a distribution based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution aimed at digital forensics and penetration testing use. It is named after backtracking, a search algorithm. BackTrack 5 Cookbook provides you with practical recipes featuring many popular tools that cover the basics of a penetration test: information gathering, vulnerability identification, exploitation, privilege escalation, and covering your tracks. The book begins by covering the installation of Ba

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Backtrack 4 : Assuring Security by Penetration Testing

BackTrack is a penetration testing and security auditing platform with advanced tools to identify, detect, and exploit any vulnerabilities uncovered in the target network environment. Applying appropriate testing methodology with defined business objectives and a scheduled test plan will result in robust penetration testing of your network. BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing is a fully focused, structured book providing guidance on developing practical penetration testing skills by demonstrating the cutting-edge hacker tools and techniques in a coherent step-by-step strategy. It offers all the essential lab preparation and testi

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ISO/IEC 20000 (IT Service Management System)

ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 is a service management system (SMS) standard. It specifies requirements for the service provider to plan, establish, implement, operate, monitor, review, maintain and improve an SMS. The requirements include the design, transition, delivery and improvement of services to fulfil agreed service requirements. ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 can be used by: an organization seeking services from service providers and requiring assurance that their service requirements will be fulfilled; an organization that requires a consistent approach by all its service providers, including those in a supply chain; a service provider that intend

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ISO 27001:2005

Information technology — Security techniques — Code of practice for information security management 1 Scope This International Standard establishes guidelines and general principles for initiating, implementing, maintaining, and improving information security management in an organization. The objectives outlined in this International Standard provide general guidance on the commonly accepted goals of information security management. The control objectives and controls of this International Standard are intended to be implemented to meet the requirements identified by a risk assessment. This International Standard may serve as a practical guid

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ISO 19011:2011 (Guidelines for auditing management systems)

1. Scope This International Standard provides guidance on auditing management systems, including the principles of auditing, managing an audit programme and conducting management system audits, as well as guidance on the evaluation of competence of individuals involved in the audit process, including the person managing the audit programme, auditors and audit teams. It is applicable to all organizations that need to conduct internal or external audits of management systems or manage an audit programme. The application of this International Standard to other types of audits is possible, provided that special consideration is given to the spec

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ISO 19011:2002 (Guidelines for quality and/or environmental management systems auditing)

Guidelines for quality and/or environmental management systems auditing 1. Scope This International Standard provides guidance on the principles of auditing, managing audit programmes, conducting quality management system audits and environmental management system audits, as well as guidance on the competence of quality and environmental management system auditors. It is applicable to all organizations needing to conduct internal or external audits of quality and/or environmental management systems or to manage an audit programme. The application of this International Standard to other types of audit is possible in principle, provided that spe

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Self-Assessment Guide Using COBIT 5

COBIT Self-Assessment Guide: Using COBIT 5 is a "stand-alone" publication, which can be used by organisations to perform a less rigorous assessment of the capability of their IT processes. This may be a precursor to undertaking more rigorous, evidenced-based assessment. The approach is based on the COBIT Process Assessment Model (PAM): Using COBIT 5 in the COBIT assessment programme, but does not require evidentiary requirements in support of the self-assessment, nor does it require use of the COBIT PAM. Sufficient information from the COBIT PAM and a full self-assessment template have been provided to simplify the process, eliminating the

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ANSI TIA-942 (Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers)

The Telecommunications Industry Association's TIA-942 Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers is an American National Standard that specifies the minimum requirements for telecommunications infrastructure of data centers and computer rooms including single tenant enterprise data centers and multi-tenant Internet hosting data centers. The topology proposed in the standard was intended to be applicable to any size data center. The standard was first published in 2005, following on the structured cabling work defined in TIA/EIA-568, and is often cited by companies such as ADC Telecommunications and Cisco Systems. The standard

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Download Certified Ethical Hacker Version 8

To beat a hacker, you need to think like one! This is exactly what this class will teach you. It is the pinnacle of the most desired information security training program any information security professional will ever want to be in. To master the hacking technologies, you will need to become one. The definition of an Ethical Hacker is very similar to a Penetration Tester. The Ethical Hacker is an individual who is usually employed with the organization and who can be trusted to undertake an attempt to penetrate networks and/or computer systems using the same methods and techniques as a Hacker. &n

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