{"id":7083,"date":"2013-04-23T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/apr\/23\/brass-tacks-answering-the-security-questions-that-matter\/"},"modified":"2013-04-23T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T08:30:00","slug":"brass-tacks-answering-the-security-questions-that-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/brass-tacks-answering-the-security-questions-that-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Brass tacks: Answering the security questions that matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"meta-nav\">Enterprise security can be a labyrinthine, complex beast with many moving parts, dozen upon dozen of requirements, needs, implications, options and alternatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But when we get down to the nitty gritty (the brass tacks if you will), security can be simplified by six simple questions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO<\/strong> is logging in?<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT<\/strong> are they accessing\/viewing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE<\/strong> is the device from which that person logs in?<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN<\/strong> was any asset changed\/modified\/moved<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW<\/strong> are they authorised\/credentialed?<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT<\/strong> is the impact of the event?<\/p>\n<p>Now determining the answers to those questions might require a bit of coordination, but in terms of initiative and priority, it is the answers to the above questions that <strong><em>must<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>drive any enterprise security<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>initiative<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of enterprise security is simple. Allow those who you want to see and access data in, and everyone else out. Of course the addendum to that is those that are &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enterprise security can be a labyrinthine, complex beast with many moving parts, dozen upon dozen of requirements, needs, implications, options and alternatives.<br \/>\nBut when we get down to the nitty gritty (the brass tacks if you will), security can be si&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}