Book description
Discover how technology is affecting your business, and why typical
security mechanisms are failing to address the issue of risk and trust.
Security for a Web 2. 0+ World looks at the perplexing issues of
cyber security, and will be of interest to those who need to know how
to make effective security policy decisions to engineers who design
ICT systems - a guide to information security and standards in the Web
2. 0+ era. It provides an understanding of IT security in the
converged world of communications technology based on the Internet Protocol.
Many companies are currently applying security models following
legacy policies or ad-hoc solutions. A series of new security
standards (ISO/ITU) allow security professionals to talk a common
language. By applying a common standard, security vendors are able to
create products and services that meet the challenging security
demands of technology further diffused from the central control of the
local area network. Companies are able to prove and show the level of
maturity of their security solutions based on their proven compliance
of the recommendations defined by the standard.
Carlos Solari and his team present much needed information and a
broader view on why and how to use and deploy standards. They set the
stage for a standards-based approach to design in security, driven by
various factors that include securing complex
information-communications systems, the need to drive security in
product development, the need to better apply security funds to get a
better return on investment.
Security applied after complex systems are deployed is at best a
patchwork fix. Concerned with what can be done now using the
technologies and methods at our disposal, the authors set in place the
idea that security can be designed in to the complex networks
that exist now and for those in the near future. Web 2. 0 is the next
great promise of ICT - we still have the chance to design in a
more secure path.
Time is of the essence - prevent-detect-respond!
