In this chapter, we will round out the book by going over a selection of best practices to help ensure the overall information security health of your organization's information systems. Most of the best practices that I will be highlighting are foundational items related to your information system's overall health and should be addressed either before or in parallel to the implementation of advanced information security tools.

In this chapter, you will learn information security best practices related to:

• User account security
• Least functionality
• Updates and patching
• Secure configurations
• Application security
• Network security