A strong security program has become a neccesity for a company to safeguard its information assets. Over the years many factors have evolved which go on and decide what is a strong security program. I am listing below some of the most essential factors which go on and determine a strong information security program.

1. A well defined inventory of information assets. This is essential for performing a threat assessment.

2. Monitoring attempts to attack / incidents on information systems

3. Intrusion Detection System IDS

4. Patches for specific vulnerabilities

5. Getting your configurations right

6. Effective countermeasures design to tackle threats and vulnerabilities.

Fortune 500 Companies agree that having atleast 4 of the above 3 criterias in their security program has major effect on the overall security environment in the organization. All the Big 4 consulting firms also stress on the above mentioned factors. So if you are vamping up your security program, keep the above six issues in mind.

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