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Security advice

Security advice

Protecting business systems

The section provides advice on how you can help protect various business information systems from electronic attack.

Applications

Applications are pieces of software that perform specific tasks. It is essential to understand that they do not exist in a vacuum and so their security must be considered as part of the environment they inhabit.

Applications

Internet Protocol version 6

This page provides information and documentation on the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).

Internet Protocol version 6

Networks

There is a growing trend for electronic devices and systems to be connected through a variety of networks. There are also increasing commercial pressures for disparate company networks to be inter-connected, often using the internet.

Networks

Operating systems

An operating system is a software interface between the hardware and the user. There are three characteristics of good system security: identity and authentication; access control; and audit and accountability.

Operating systems

SCADA

Almost all critical industrial infrastructures and processes are managed remotely from central control rooms, using computers and communications networks. The flow of gas and oil through pipes, the processing and distribution of water, the management of the electricity grid, the operation of chemical plants, and the signalling network for railways. These all use various forms of process control and 'supervisory control and data acquisition' - known as SCADA technology.

SCADA

Telecommunications

The dependability of the telecommunications infrastructure is vital to the wellbeing of most organisations and, by extension, the wider national infrastructure.

Telecommunications

Viewpoints

Guidance papers are intended to provide detailed information security advice that helps inform organisational risk management decisions. The associated viewpoint documents provide a summary of the most pertinent points to consider.

Viewpoints
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