Technological Countermeasures
Dominique Assing, Stéphane Calé · 2013
The chapter first discusses the three major families of methods for protecting the modern information systems, namely prevention, detection, and response. The protection model must delay as far as possible the attacker from reaching his ultimate goal, while allowing the defense to detect him as quickly as possible to be able to launch countermeasures. The chapter talks about the organization of the information system's security. When one thinks of organization of security, the terms, training, processes, procedures and standards, come to mind. This situation stems mainly from the fact that security is a domain which brings together technical experts and other specialists in business standards and processes. These two worlds nonetheless share a common goal: to preserve the security of the information system.