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2.6 Summary
94 Lotus Security Handbook
To ensure that this cycle can repeat itself and can offer a better instance of the
security infrastructure at each new cycle, a feedback mechanism is required.
This feedback mechanism is important since it ensures that security is properly
implemented throughout the organization, that it works as designed, that it works
for the users and not the other way around, and finally and most importantly, it
ensures that the security in the organization evolves as needed.
In this chapter, we have looked at various methodologies for designing,
deploying, and managing security in any organization.
We covered are the following topics:
► The notions of threats, risks, and risk mitigation
► The human element and how it factors heavily in security
► A number of methodologies: ISO 17799, the Common Criteria, and IBM’s
Method for Architecting Secure Solutions (MASS)
► The methodology used by IBM’s Software Services for Lotus.
The rest of the contents of this redbook are built upon these methodologies.