Section 9

Governmental Laws, Policies, and Procedures

The US government has documented many incident response policies and procedures over the past 35 years, as have multiple other countries. Explanations and resources for local, national, and international organizational and governmental requirements for security policies, procedures, and guidelines are provided.

Keywords

NIST; DHS; DOJ; FISMA; special publications

Over the past 50 years, various governments around the world have developed and passed laws within their country to govern and oversee Incident Response, Computer Security, and Forensics activities. This section is designed to provide the reader with a “snapshot” of these laws in some of the larger countries.

US Government

The US government ...

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