Risk Management Reference Materials

Risk Mitigation: Networks

Prevention | Detection | Correction & Recovery |

Information technologies, notably digital networks, are mission critical resources for both public and private sector organizations. Since network resources have vulnerabilities that can be exploited and perpetrators who present a threat by trying to exploit the vulnerabilities, it is incumbent upon management to properly manage the risks. Generally the risk management strategy involves some combination of accepting, sharing, or mitigating the risks. The later usually involves some combination of prevention, detection, and correction/recovery strategies.

Prevention

• Security Recommendation Guides, the NSA's extensive library for Windows O/S

• Home Network Security, from CERT

• Security Tools & Checklists, at Microsoft's TechNet

• Security of the Internet, from CERT

Detection

Correction & Recovery

• Removing Spyware, a brief article with reviews of current applications