Towards a platform to visualize the state of South Africa's information security

Swart, Ignus; Irwin, Barry V W; Grobler, Marthie

Title: Towards a platform to visualize the state of South Africa's information security
Creator: Swart, Ignus
Creator: Irwin, Barry V W
Creator: Grobler, Marthie
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2014
Date: 2014
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/429688
Identifier: vital:72632
Identifier: 10.1109/ISSA.2014.6950511
Description: Attacks via the Internet infrastructure is increasingly becoming a daily occurrence and South Africa is no exception. In response, certain governments have published strategies pertaining to information security on a national level. These policies aim to ensure that critical infrastructure is protected, and that there is a move towards a greater state of information security readiness. This is also the case for South Africa where a variety of policy initiatives have started to gain momentum. While establishing strategy and policy is essential, ensuring its implementation is often difficult and dependent on the availability of resources. This is even more so in the case of information security since virtually all standardized security improvement processes start off with specifying that a proper inventory is required of all hardware, software, people and processes. While this may be possible to achieve at an organizational level, it is far more challenging on a national level. In this paper, the authors examine the possibility of making use of available data sources to achieve inventory of infrastructure on a national level and to visualize the state of a country's information security in at least a partial manner.
Format: 6 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Information Security for South Africa
Relation: Swart, I., Irwin, B. and Grobler, M., 2014, August. Towards a platform to visualize the state of South Africa's information security. In 2014 Information Security for South Africa (pp. 1-8). IEEE
Relation: Information Security for South Africa volume 2014 number 1 1 6 2014 2330-9881
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