Thursday, December 11, 2008

Jeremiah Grossman on Justifying Security Spending

I liked cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 way Jeremiah Grossman listed five ways to justify security spending:

1) Risk Mitigation
"If we spend $X on Y, we’ll reduce of risk of loss of $A by B%."

2) Due Diligence
"We must spend $X on Y because it’s an industry best-practice."

3) Incident Response
"We must spend $X on Y so that Z never happens again."

4) Regulatory Compliance
"We must spend $X on Y because PCI-DSS says so."

5) Competitive Advantage
"We must spend $X on Y to make cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 customer happy."


Jeremiah expands on each in his blog, which makes for good reading.


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Michael Cloppert said...

3) Incident Response
"We must spend $X on Y so that Z never happens again."


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Incident Response is best measured in terms of triage (response/detect time), guidance to focus infrastructure efforts, and prevention.