Continuous monitoring
Continuous monitoring of information systems is a move towards ensuring security of the system. It’s a strategy laid down to track down and prevent possible threats to the system before the risk gets out of hand. It seeks to create awareness of how secure the system is by comparing the efficiency of the system to the expected level. Data on performance is collected and analyzed to make this possible (Vacca, 2009).
Continuous monitoring is an important strategy when viewed from different perspectives. Its main importance comes in that it plays a major role in ensuring proper security controls are adopted ...