Protective Monitoring

An Introduction to GPG13

The Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG) is Britain’s Authority for Information Assurance. Its Good Practice Guide No 13 (GPG13) is increasingly mandated for organisations involved in UK government business, such as government departments and agencies, as well as service providers and outsourcing companies. This guide extracts the main points from the 136 pages of GPG13, to make it easier to follow and implement. The guide covers:

• Protective monitoring as a set of business processes supported by effective technology
• How organisations can prevent data breaches, unauthorised access and fraudulent use
• Why IT security staff must have a complete view of the whole IT environment
• Monitoring users and assuring user accountability for their use of IT resources.

Key terms and topics addressed:

• GPG13 compliance reporting, monitoring and control, IT compliance
• Data breaches, attacks, data breach protection, data security, policy breaches
• Regulatory compliance, compliance monitoring, event capture/log management
• Information assurance, IT security and risk management, risk mitigation
• Security information and Event Management (SIEM), scalable network security solution

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