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Lecture 6 Flashcards

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Everyone in an organization needs to be trained and aware of information security; not every member needs formal degree or certificate in information security

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Security Education

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When formal education for individuals in security is needed, an employee can identify curriculum available from local institutions of higher learning or continuing education

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Security Education

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A number of universities have formal coursework in information security

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Security Education

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Involves providing members of organization with detailed information and hands-on instruction designed to prepare them to perform their duties securely

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Security Training

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Management of information security can develop customized in-house training or outsource the training program

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Security Training

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One of least frequently implemented but most beneficial programs is the ? program

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Security Awareness

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Designed to keep information security at the forefront of users’ minds

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Security Awareness

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Need not be complicated or expensive

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Security Awareness

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If the program is not actively implemented, employees begin to “tune out” and risk of employee accidents and failures increases

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Security Awareness

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Continuous availability of info systems

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Continuity Strategies

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Probability high for attack

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Continuity Strategies

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Managers must be ready to act

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Continuity Strategies

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Prepared by organization

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Contingency Plan (CP)

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Anticipate, react to, & recover from attacks

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Contingency Plan (CP)

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Restore organization to normal operations

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Contingency Plan (CP)

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3 Components of Contingency Plan

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Continuity Strategies - 3 Components of Contingency Plan

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  • Incident Response (IRPs)
  • Disaster Recovery (DRPs)
  • Business Continuity (BCPs)
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Focus on immediate response

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Incident Response (IRPs)

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Focus on restoring system

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Disaster Recovery (DRPs)

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Focus establish business functions at alternate site

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Business Continuity (BCPs)

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Before planning can begin, a team has to plan effort and prepare resulting documents

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Continuity Strategies

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??: high-level manager to support, promote, and endorse findings of project

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  • Continuity Strategies
  • Champion
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??: leads project and makes sure sound project planning process is used, a complete and useful project plan is developed, and project resources are prudently managed

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  • Continuity Strategies
  • Project Manager
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??: should be managers or their representatives from various communities of interest: business, IT, and information security

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  • Continuity Strategies
  • Team members
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Investigate & assess impact of various attack

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Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

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First risk assessment – then ?

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Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

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Prioritized list of threats & critical info

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Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

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Detailed scenarios of potential impact of each attack

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Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

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Answers question: “if the attack succeeds, what do you do then?”

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Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

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5 BIA (Business Impact Analysis) Sections

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5 BIA Sections

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  • Threat attack identification & prioritization
  • Business Unit analysis
  • Attack success scenario development
  • Potential damage assessment
  • Subordinate Plan Classification
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5 BIA (Business Impact Analysis) Sections

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  • Attack profile – detailed description of activities that occur during an attack
  • Determine the extent of resulting damage

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Threat attack identification & prioritization

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5 BIA (Business Impact Analysis) Sections

Threat attack identification & prioritization

  • ? - detailed description of activities that occur during an attack
  • Determine the extent of resulting damage

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Attack Profile

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5 BIA (Business Impact Analysis) Sections

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  • Analysis & prioritization-business functions
  • Identify & prioritize functions within orgs units

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Business Unit analysis

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5 BIA (Business Impact Analysis) Sections

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  • Series of scenarios showing impact
  • Each treat on prioritized list
  • Alternate outcomes (Best, worst, probable cases)

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Attack success scenario development

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5 BIA (Business Impact Analysis) Sections

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  • Estimate cost of best, worst, probable
  • What must be done under each
  • Not how much to spend

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Potential damage assessment

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5 BIA (Business Impact Analysis) Sections

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  • Basis for classification as disastrous not disastrous

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Subordinate Plan Classification

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covers identification of,
classification of, and response to an incident

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Incident Response Planning (IRPs)

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Attacks classified as incidents if they:
* Are directed against information assets
* Have a realistic chance of success
* Could threaten confidentiality, integrity, or availability of information resources

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Incident Response Planning (IRPs)

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?? is more reactive, than proactive, with the exception of planning that must occur to prepare IR teams to be ready to react to an incident

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  • Incident Response Planning (IRPs)
  • Incident Response (IR)
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Set of activities taken to plan for, detect, and correct the impact

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Incident Response

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* Requires understanding BIA scenarios
* Develop series of predefined responses
* Enables org to react quickly

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  • Incident Response
  • Incident Planning
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??? – intrusion detection systems, virus detection, system
administrators, end users

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  • Incident Response
  • Incident Detection
  • Mechanisms
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Incident Detection

4 Possible Indicators

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Incident Response - Incident Detection - 4 Possible Indicators

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  • Presence of unfamiliar files
  • Execution of unknown programs or processes
  • Unusual consumption of computing resources
  • Unusual system crashes
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Incident Detection

4 Probable Indicators

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Incident Response - Incident Detection - 4 Probable Indicators

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  • Activities at unexpected times
  • Presence of new accounts
  • Reported attacks
  • Notification form IDS
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Incident Detection

4 Definite Indicators

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Incident Response - Incident Detection - 4 Definite Indicators

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  • Use of dormant accounts
  • Changes to logs
  • Presence of hacker tools
  • Notification by partner or peer
  • Notification by hackers
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Incident Detection

4 Predefined Situation

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Incident Response - Incident Detection - 4 Predefined Situation

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  • Loss of availability
  • Loss of integrity
  • Loss of confidentiality
  • Violation of policy
  • Violation of law
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  • Actions outlined in the IRP
  • Guide the organization
    - Stop the incident
    - Mitigate the impact
    - Provide information recovery
  • Notify key personnel
  • Document incident

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Incident Reaction

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  • Sever affected communication circuits
  • Disable accounts
  • Reconfigure firewall
  • Disable process or service
  • Take down email
  • Stop all computers and network devices
  • Isolate affected channels, processes, services, or computers

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Incident Containment Strategies

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  • Get everyone moving and focused
  • Assess Damage
  • Recovery
    - Identify and resolve vulnerabilities
    - Address safeguards
    - Evaluate monitoring capabilities
    - Restore data from backups
    - Restore process and services
    - Continuously monitor system
    - Restore confidence

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Incident Recovery

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  • Provide guidance in the event of a disaster
  • Clear establishment of priorities
  • Clear delegation of roles & responsibilities
  • Alert key personnel
  • Document disaster
  • Mitigate impact
  • Evacuation of physical assets

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Disaster Recovery Plan (DRPs)

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Disaster recovery personnel must know their responses without any supporting documentation

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Crisis Management

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Actions taken during and after a disaster focusing on people involved and addressing viability of business

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Crisis Management

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?? responsible for managing event from an enterprise perspective and covers:
* Support personnel and loved ones
* Determine impact on normal operations
* Keep public informed
* Communicate with major players such as major customers, suppliers, partners, regulatory agencies, industry organizations, the media, and other interested parties

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  • Crisis Management
  • Crisis Management Team
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Outlines reestablishment of critical business operations during a disaster that impacts operations

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Business Continuity Planning (BCPs)

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If disaster has rendered the business unusable for continued operations, there must be a plan to allow business to continue functioning

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Business Continuity Planning (BCPs)

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Development of ? somewhat simpler than IRP or DRP; consists primarily of selecting a continuity strategy and integrating off-site data storage and recovery functions into this strategy

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Business Continuity Planning (BCPs)

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There are a number of strategies for planning for business continuity

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Continuity Strategies

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Determining factor in selecting between options usually cost

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Continuity Strategies

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In general there are three exclusive options: hot sites; warm sites; and cold sites

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Continuity Strategies

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Three shared functions: time-share; service bureaus; and mutual agreements

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Continuity Strategies

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  • Fully configured computer facilities
  • All services & communication links
  • Physical plant operations

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  • Alternative Site Configurations
  • Hot Sites
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  • Does not include actual applications
  • Application may not be installed and configured
  • Required hours to days to become operational

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  • Alternative Site Configurations
  • Warm Sites
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  • Rudimentary services and facilities
  • No hardware or peripherals
  • Empty room

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  • Alternative Site Configurations
  • Cold Sites
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  • Hot, warm, or cold
  • Leased with other orgs

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  • Alternative Site Configurations
  • Time-shares
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  • Provides service for a fee

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  • Alternative Site Configurations
  • Service bureau
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  • A contract between two or more organizations that specifies how each will assist the other in the event of a disaster.

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  • Alternative Site Configurations
  • Mutual agreements
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To get sites up and running quickly, organization must have ability to port data into new site’s systems

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Off-Site Disaster Data Storage

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* Transfer of large batches of data
* Receiving server archives data
* Fee

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  • Off-Site Disaster Data Storage
  • Electronic vaulting
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  • Transfer of live transactions to off-site
  • Only transactions are transferred
  • Transfer is real time

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  • Off-Site Disaster Data Storage
  • Journaling
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  • Duplicated databases
  • Multiple servers
  • Processes duplicated
  • 3 or more copies simultaneously

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  • Off-Site Disaster Data Storage
  • Shadowing
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Model for a Consolidated Contingency Plan

? supports concise planning and encourages smaller organizations to develop, test, and use IR and DR plans

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Single document set

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Model for a Consolidated Contingency Plan

? is based on analyses of disaster recovery and incident response plans of dozens of organizations

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Model

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The Planning Document

6 steps in contingency planning process

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The Planning Document - 6 Steps in Contingency Planning Process

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  • Identifying mission- or business-critical functions
  • Identifying resources that support critical functions
  • Anticipating potential contingencies or disasters
  • Selecting contingency planning strategies
  • Implementing contingency strategies
  • Testing and revising strategy
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  • When incident at hand constitutes a violation of law, organization may determine involving law enforcement is necessary
  • Questions:
    - When should organization get law enforcement involved?
    - What level of law enforcement agency should be involved (local, state, federal)?
    - What happens when law enforcement agency is involved?
  • Some questions are best answered by organization’s legal department

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Law Enforcement Involvement

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Benefits and Drawbacks of Law Enforcement Involvement

Involving law enforcement agencies has ?:
* Agencies may be better equipped at processing evidence
* Organization may be less effective in convicting suspects
* Law enforcement agencies prepared to handle warrants and subpoenas needed
* Law enforcement skilled at obtaining witness statements and other information collection

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Advantages (of Law Enforcement Involvement)

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Benefits and Drawbacks of Law Enforcement Involvement

Involving law enforcement agencies has ?:
* Once a law enforcement agency takes over case, organization loses complete control over chain of events
* Organization may not hear about case for weeks or months
* Equipment vital to the organization’s business may be tagged evidence
* If organization detects a criminal act, it is legally obligated to involve appropriate law enforcement officials

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Disadvantages (of Law Enforcement Involvement)

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Summary

? is control measure that reduces accidental security breaches and increases organizational resistance to many other forms of attack

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Information security education, training, and awareness (SETA)

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Summary

? made up of 3 components:
* Incident Response Planning (IRP)
* Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
* Business Continuity Planning (BCP)

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Contigency Planning (CP)

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