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Re: Patterns and Security Measurement
From: Dan Catalin Vasile <hardware_cta () yahoo com>
Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 23:03:36 -0700 (PDT)
Hi, There is no 'one way' to measure security because you don't have a ruler accepted by everybody for that. Instead, there are several aproaches... One would be to perform an audit. Here you can choose between ISO 17799 (more 'commercial' version) and all the other standards that put together generated ISO 17799, or you can choose OSSTMM. Open source... you know, more likeit. There are consistent differences between the tow. ISO is theoretical while OSSTMM is more practical. But you can do some googleing to figure out what is best for you. Another approach would be... surprise! a pen test. :) But it seems the problem is a little bit complex for this. You can also try a risk management and vulnerability assessment approach. Remember that the best security solution money can buy is worthless if it's not used correctly. The idea is to develop the best security with the resources you have. Greets, Dan --- Nguyen Pham <nguyen.petronius () gmail com> wrote:
Hi list, Actually, I am trying to measure security (and then security assurance) level of a complex telecommunication network. I am looking for a method/approach/product using sets of predefined, standard entities (station, server, firewall, router, ...) and relations (forming "patterns" like pipe, cluster, bus, gateway, ..., architectures) which have already been measured to simplify the process of system security measurement. An aggregation algorithm is then needed to arrive at an overall system security value. Any recommendation of academic or industrial solutions would be welcome. Other suggestions for solving the problem (security measurement of complex network) are also greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Nguyen Pham.
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