Security Vulnerability Audit: Assessing Your Organization's Security
by Jim Cavanagh
Posted: 06/13/2002
Abstract:
The most effective team to determine your own vulnerabilities and then put a plan into place to close the vulnerabilities is ... your own team. This white paper includes the basic version of the Infrastructure and Network Security Report Card, a system for grading your own security vulnerabilities. This simple self-assessment tool is designed to provide a basis for further security planning.
This research report is reproduced by special arrangement with our partner, The Consultant Registry.
About the author:
James P. Cavanagh has been intimately involved with sales, marketing, engineering, public and private network design, installation and training of ATM, Frame Relay, IP, and DSL since their early commercialization. In the area of traditional consulting, Mr. Cavanagh boasts a long list of recognizable manufacturers in the emerging IP networking arena, as well as traditional telephony, carriers and service providers, and end-user organizations. Mr. Cavanagh has helped his clients with everything from product specification to network procurement, design, integration, installation and engineering.
Mr. Cavanagh is the editor of books on multimedia networking and network security, as well as author of Frame Relay Applications: Business and Technology Case Studies. He is currently writing a book on optical networking, and starting a new web site covering domestic US and International telecom regulatory and legal issues. Mr. Cavanagh is also a frequent guest on panels at industry conferences, has been an instructor for the International Communications Association's (ICA) Summer Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 1992. Additionally, Mr. Cavanagh also provides training on ATM, Frame Relay, Emerging Technologies, LAN and TCP/IP Integration, Telecom and Datacom Fundamentals and a variety of other subjects.
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