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Published inMar 2024
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ISBN-139781803235844
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Lester Nichols
Lester Nichols
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Lester Nichols

Lester E. Nichols III currently resides in North Texas and is the Director Security Architecture/VP Cybersecurity Operations at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Previous experience includes the Director of IT Infrastructure and Security for a development company, SOC oversight manager/Senior Infrastructure Officer within DHS and previous experience in Local/Federal/DoD/financial sectors. Lester has post graduate education with a Master's of Science Degree in Information Assurance from Norwich University, the oldest private military school in the United States, and multiple industry certifications including CISSP and SANS certs, as well as others. Lester is also a contributing author to the Computer Security Handbook 5th-6th Editions by Wiley Press.
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Access control

Adequate information and system security is a fundamental responsibility of management. Access control plays a vital role in nearly all applications that handle financial, privacy, safety, or defense-related data. It involves determining the permissible actions of authorized users and managing every attempt made by a user to access system resources. While some systems grant complete access after successful authentication, most systems require more sophisticated and complex control mechanisms. In addition to authentication, access control considers how authorizations are structured. This may involve aligning authorizations with the organization’s structure or basing them on the sensitivity of documents and the clearance level of users accessing them.

When organizations plan to implement an access control system, they need to consider three crucial abstractions: access control policies, models, and mechanisms.

Access control policies are overarching requirements...

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Published in: Mar 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803235844

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Lester Nichols

Lester E. Nichols III currently resides in North Texas and is the Director Security Architecture/VP Cybersecurity Operations at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Previous experience includes the Director of IT Infrastructure and Security for a development company, SOC oversight manager/Senior Infrastructure Officer within DHS and previous experience in Local/Federal/DoD/financial sectors. Lester has post graduate education with a Master's of Science Degree in Information Assurance from Norwich University, the oldest private military school in the United States, and multiple industry certifications including CISSP and SANS certs, as well as others. Lester is also a contributing author to the Computer Security Handbook 5th-6th Editions by Wiley Press.
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