Fundamentals of information system security

• The definition of process/information assets and supporting assets (IT).
• The AICT/P classification: Availability, Integrity, Confidentiality and Traceability/Proof.
• The definition of the ISS risk and its specific properties (vulnerabilities, threats).
• Different types of risks: Accident, error, malevolence.
• The emergence of cyber risk, APTs, preparing for a cyber crisis.
• Essential outside sources of information (ANSSI, CLUSIF, ENISA, etc.).

The ISS task force: multiple business profiles

• The role and responsibilities of the CISO, the relationship with the IT department.
• Towards a structured and described safety organization, identify competences.
• The role of the asset owners and the need for management to be involved.
• Profiles of architects, integrators, auditors, pen-testers, supervisors, risk managers, etc.
• Building a competent team, trained and responsive to changes in the cyber realm.

Standardization and regulatory frameworks

• Incorporating business, legal and contractual requirements. The compliance approach.
• An example of a business regulation: PCI DSS to protect sensitive data.
• Security measures to achieve confidentiality and data integrity.
• An example of legal regulation: NIS directive/France’s Military Programming Law.
• The 4 areas of security as seen by the EU and ANSSI: Governance, Protection, Defense, and Resilience.
• Security measures to achieve process availability and integrity.
• The ISO 27001 standard in an information security management system approach (Deming cycle/PDCA).
• The universal best practices of the ISO 27002 standard, the minimum essential knowledge.
• Security areas: from policy to compliance to IT security.
• Developing a Security Assurance Plan in the customer/supplier relationship.

The risk analysis process

• Incorporating Risk Analysis into the security governance process.
• Identification and classification of risks, accidental risks and cyber-risks.
• The ISO 31000 and 27005 standards and the relationship of the risk process to the ISO 27001 ISMS.
• From risk assessment to the risk mitigation plan: Best process activities.
• Knowledge of predefined methods: French EBIOS RM approach, U.S. NIST approach, etc.

Security audits and the user awareness plan

• Audit categories, from organizational audits to intrusion tests.
• Best practices of the 19011 standard applied to security.
• How to certify your auditors. Example with PASSI in France.
• Security awareness: Who? What? How?
• The need for planned, budgeted awareness.
• Different formats of awareness: Face-to-face or virtual?
• The security charter, its legal standing, its contents, its penalties.
• Quizzes and serious games, for example with the ANSSI MOOC.

The cost of security and backup plans

• Security budgets, available statistics.
• The definition of Return On Security Investment (ROSI).
• Cost assessment techniques, different calculation methods, calculating the TCO.
• Hedging risks and the continuity strategy.
• Backup, continuity, recovery, and crisis management plans, BCP/BRP, IT contingency plans, RTO/RPO.
• Developing a continuity plan, fitting it into a security approach.

Designing optimal technical solutions

• Structuring its logical and physical protection. How to develop defense in depth.
• The three main areas of computer security (networks, data, software).
• Partitioning your sensitive networks, network and application firewall technologies.
• Make your data unreadable during storage and transport, cryptographic techniques.
• Securing your software through hardening and secure design.
• Software vulnerability management, how to use CVE/CVSS.

Security monitoring

• Operational indicators for governance and security.
• Cyber management: ISO-compliant dashboard.
• Preparing your defense (IDS, incident detection, etc.).
• Alert processing and cyber forensics, the role of CERTs.

Violations of law relating to Automatic Data Processing Systems

• Legal definition in France of an Automatic Data Processing System (STAD).
• Types of violations, European context, the LCEN law. The GDPR regulation.
• What legal risks are there for the company, its leaders, the CISO?

Recommendations for “legal” IS security.

• Personal data protection, penalties for non-compliance.
• Use of biometrics in France.
• Employee cybersurveillance: Legal limits and restrictions.
• Employee rights and penalties incurred by the employer.