Information Security-The Truth

Want more money for your information security skills? Try getting a professional certification. For all the continuing debate about the real value of IT certification programs, the premiums that companies are willing to pay for certified information security professionals is actually trending upwards.

Latest reports released shows that formally certified security professionals on average are still commanding about 10% to 15% higher salaries than noncertified individuals in comparable roles. The numbers were marginally higher than the premiums offered for certified security professionals six months ago.

Among the certification programs commanding the highest premiums were Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) , Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

In contrast, the premiums being offered for individuals with professional certifications in other IT areas fell by about 2% over the past years, according to the Foote report. The analysis was based on salary data from 33,800 U.S and Canadian IT professionals.

"Security certifications bucked the overall trend by growing in value up an average of 1.7 percent across the entire group of twenty-seven security certifications that we survey," the report said. "This is a very important development, because salaries as well as skills pay for IT security professionals stopped growing and in some cases declined a few years ago following what had been a strong wave of hiring in the wake of Patriot Act, Homeland Security Act, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act legislation," the Foote report said.

That trend has begun reversing itself as demand for qualified security professionals has begun to steadily grow recently, said David Foote, CEO of Foote Partners, in an interview with Computerworld.  High-profile breaches, such as the one at TJX earlier this year, have made company executives increasingly nervous about the impact of security breaches on their customer bases, Foote said. As a result many have begun to ramp up their security efforts, resulting in an overall increase in demand for qualified security professionals to their highest levels after 9/11, he said.

This trend in IT security certifications pay is an indication that, finally, there is something other than government regulation that is driving business leaders to invest more in security, Foote said. "The trend is not being driven by compliance and regulations. It is being driven by people saying customers are demanding more security," from the companies they do business with, Foote said.

Also pushing up the premiums for security certification is a new Department of Defense directive which requires over 100,000 security professionals in certain specific job roles to be certified within a five year period, Foote said. The directive affects full- or part-time military service members, contractors, or those with privileged access to DOD information systems who are performing information assurance functions.

The two trends are creating a "perfect storm" in terms of pushing up premiums for IT security certifications at a time when other certification programs are commanding lower premiums than they used to, he added.

Source: Computerworld.com

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What is difference between ISO 27001 and the ISO 27002.

If you came across both the ISO 27001 and the ISO 27002, you probably noticed that ISO 27002 is much more detailed, much more precise - so, what's the purpose of ISO 27001 then?

First of all, you cannot get certified against ISO 27002 because it is not a management standard. What does a management standard mean? It means that such a standard defines how to run a system, and in case of ISO 27001, it defines the information security management system (ISMS) - therefore, certification against ISO 27001 is possible.

This management system means that information security must be planned, implemented, monitored, reviewed, and improved. It means that management has its distinct responsibilities, that objectives must be set, measured and reviewed, that internal audits must be carried out and so on.
All those elements are defined in ISO 27001, but not in ISO 27002.

The controls in ISO 27002 are named the same as in Annex A of ISO 27001 - for instance, in ISO 27002 control 6.1.6 is named Contact with authorities, while in ISO 27001 it is A.6.1.6 Contact with authorities. But, the difference is in the level of detail - on average, ISO 27002 explains one control on one whole page, while ISO 27001 dedicates only one sentence to each control.

Finally, the difference is that ISO 27002 does not make a distinction between controls applicable to a particular organization, and those which are not. On the other hand, ISO 27001 prescribes a risk assessment to be performed in order to identify for each control whether it is required to decrease the risks, and if it is, to which extent it should be applied.

The question is: why is it that those two standards exist separately, why haven't they been merged, bringing together the positive sides of both standards? The answer is usability - if it was a single standard, it would be too complex and too large for practical use.

Every standard from the ISO 27000 series is designed with a certain focus - if you want to build the foundations of information security in your organization, and devise its framework, you should use ISO 27001; if you want to implement controls, you should use ISO 27002, if you want to carry out risk assessment and risk treatment, you should use ISO 27005 etc.

To conclude, one could say that without the details provided in ISO 27002, controls defined in Annex A of ISO 27001 could not be implemented; however, without the management framework from ISO 27001, ISO 27002 would remain just an isolated effort of a few information security enthusiasts, with no acceptance from the top management and therefore with no real impact on the organization.

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Information security is becoming increasingly important. Globalization of the economy leads to a growing exchange of information between organizations (their employees, customers and suppliers) and a growing use of networks, such as the internal company network, connection with the networks of other companies and the Internet. Furthermore, activities of many companies now rely on IT, and information has become a valuable asset. Protection of information is crucial for the continuity and proper functioning of the organization: information must be reliable.

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Why you should adopt ITIL?

In the wake of many improvement concepts, the current “next greatest” concept in recent years is the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, a framework for IT best practices that’s gaining attention in the federal IT community. 

FACT: 62% of respondents working in organizations with 10,000 or more employees have begun using ITIL, compared with 33% of organizations with fewer than 100 employees. 

SOURCE: BT INS 2006 survey of 306 IT managers worldwide

How Does It Work?

ITIL provides a set of processes organized to support the functions of delivering IT service to customers in five categories (see sidebar, below). These processes are reputed to be best practices based on actual use by organizations to achieve expected results. Across the entire service lifecycle, these best practices are touted to deliver improved customer satisfaction, improved efficiency and cost savings.

A popular starting point for organizations that implement ITIL is to convert to ITIL guidelines for their IT incident management process, with the expectation that improved incident management will help CIOs restore normal service levels more quickly after anything that interrupts a system and with minimal disruption to users.

In some sense, ITIL is analogous to commercial, off-the-shelf software. You pull out the old software, implement the COTS software without change, create interfaces to other systems and revise business processes at the interface points to allow integration to take place. 

The anticipated results are business benefits derived from the new system and lower maintenance costs over the system’s useful life. With ITIL, you replace processes, not software. Both ITIL and COTS implementations involve a significant amount of individual, process and organizational change.

What Are the Drivers?

Adopting ITIL guidelines appears to involve significant effort by leadership and staff, and requires an organization to undergo substantial change. Do the expected benefits make this investment worthwhile?

In the global economy, many corporate organizations have worldwide operations and acquire other companies to increase their global footprint. ITIL provides a global standard for the best practice of IT service management, and that’s an important driver for commercial adoption. Implemented successfully, ITIL can help standardize the IT service environment across large global enterprises.

Unlike some other process-focused improvement strategies, ITIL is a library of advice and guidance on how to deliver and support IT services, not a methodology. Organizations can choose to implement parts of ITIL or the entire lifecycle, so it’s more adaptable to the needs and capabilities of an organization. 

ITIL processes are designed to perform requisite functions completely and efficiently — that is, get a job done with little wasted effort. The premise is that implementing ITIL processes will eliminate any gaps in an operation and support IT service delivery as well as require less effort (and cash outlay).

Over the past few years, both commercial and government organizations have faced increasing pressure to comply with new regulations focused on the internal controls, especially those that affect financial reporting. ITIL guidelines support such compliance challenges because they specify the business processes and control points involved in performing IT service management — no matter whether the environment is private or public.

But Will It Work in Agencies?

Given that the implementation challenges are significant, and the benefits to be gained are fairly soft, end-to-end federal implementations of ITIL seem unlikely. Without an ITIL evangelist with broad federal standing who can explain ITIL simply, as well as how to implement it and use it effectively, broad adoption in the government is unlikely.

At the same time, focused efforts to improve a component of the IT service delivery and management function are much more likely to be successfully implemented using ITIL guidelines. Incident management, for instance, is a focused, compact function that an agency can re-engineer using a set of processes defined by ITIL. The beauty is that end users can adapt a slightly modified process and interface, while the more significant change is confined to a small group of resources in the IT organization.

As there are proven results in pocketed ITIL rollouts, it seems likely that ITIL processes will increasingly be built into software for supporting IT service management, with the same impact: modest changes for end users, and more significant changes for the IT organization.

An ITIL Catalyst?

The Infrastructure Optimization Initiative Line of Business (IOI LOB) might provide the perfect catalyst for ITIL adoption. Not only must federal organizations craft plans for achieving cost and performance goals for discrete IT infrastructure functions, but they will likely be held accountable, at least in a budget sense, for achieving the goals established in these plans. Many will have to improve their IT infrastructures to reach these goals, which could make ITIL important to the effort.

ITIL Made Easy

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library is a set of best-practice approaches for IT service management. Version 3, the latest ITIL iteration, consists of five core volumes, organized around a service lifecycle approach:

Service Strategy: This volume looks at overall business aims and expectations to ensure IT strategy maps back to them. Service strategy provides tools to ensure that each element of the service lifecycle focuses on customer outcomes. Key processes include financial management for IT services, demand management and services portfolio management.

Service Design: It provides guidance on production and maintenance of IT policies, architectures and documents for the design of IT infrastructure services. This volume sets the stage to deliver IT services and meet the demand for growth and change. Key processes include security management, service catalog management, supplier management, availability management, capacity management and IT service continuity management.

Service Transition: This volume provides guidance for the transition of services in the operational business environment, including long-term change management and release and deployment practices. Processes featured in this volume include transition planning and support, service validation and testing, evaluation, service knowledge management, change management, release and deployment management, and asset and configuration management.

Service Operation: It details delivery and control activities to achieve operational excellence on a day-to-day basis, especially focused on performing at or above agreed levels. Service operation functions and processes include service desk, technical management, IT operations management, application management, event management, request fulfillment, access management, incident management and problem management.

Continual Service Improvement: This volume provides guidance on evaluating and improving the quality of services and the overall maturity of the IT service lifecycle and underlying processes. The domains that comprise continual service improvement are knowledge management, the Deming cycle (plan, do, check, act), baselines, monitoring and measurement.

Source: FEDTECH

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