Week 2 Mod 2-Case

  

527-MODULE 2 CASE

Continuous monitoring is a critical part of risk management process. "Continuous

monitoring is ongoing observance with intent to provide warning. A continuous

monitoring capability is the ongoing observance and analysis of the operational

states of systems to provide decision support regarding situational awareness and

deviations from expectations." —Source: Keith Willett (MITRE) in support of the

NSA.

"Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) is defined as maintaining

ongoing awareness of information security, vulnerabilities, and threats to support

organizational risk management decisions." —NIST.

Organizations should establish, implement, and maintain ISCM. ISCM should be a

recursive process as its monitoring strategy is continually refined so that ISCM is a

robust system. Tiered organization-wide ISCM framework and dynamic ISCM

processes are proposed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Please scan through the important framework and processes in the following article.

Its Appendix D "Technologies for Enabling ISCM" provides some technical and

managerial details and examples.

NIST (2011). Information Security -- Information Security Continuous Monitoring

(ISCM) for Federal Information Systems and Organizations. National Institute of

Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-137.

Additional reference models are also provided and extended to go more in depth

both technically and managerially. Please investigate the CAESARS model below

and its extension.

DHS (2011). Continuous Asset Evaluation, Situational Awareness, and Risk Scoring

Reference Architecture Report (CAESARS). Department of Homeland Security.

Mell, P. (2011) Presentation: An Enterprise Continuous Monitoring Technical

Reference Model. Jointly developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, the U.S.

Department of Homeland Security, and the National Institute of Standards and

Technology.

After reading the above articles, please write a 3 PAGE PAPER TITLED: MUST HAVE IN TEXT CITATIONS THAT MATCH REFERENCES MUST BE LESS THAN 7% TURNITIN/SAFE ASSIGN SCORE!!

"Information Security Continuous Monitoring—Challenges and Solutions"

Please address the following issues in your paper:

1. The importance of continuous monitoring of information systems

2. The technical and managerial challenges of continuous monitoring

3. The technical and managerial solutions to continuous monitoring, including

framework, processes, etc.