Risk Analysis and the Security Survey


Book Description

As there is a need for careful analysis in a world where threats are growing more complex and serious, you need the tools to ensure that sensible methods are employed and correlated directly to risk. Counter threats such as terrorism, fraud, natural disasters, and information theft with the Fourth Edition of Risk Analysis and the Security Survey. Broder and Tucker guide you through analysis to implementation to provide you with the know-how to implement rigorous, accurate, and cost-effective security policies and designs. This book builds on the legacy of its predecessors by updating and covering new content. Understand the most fundamental theories surrounding risk control, design, and implementation by reviewing topics such as cost/benefit analysis, crime prediction, response planning, and business impact analysis--all updated to match today's current standards. This book will show you how to develop and maintain current business contingency and disaster recovery plans to ensure your enterprises are able to sustain loss are able to recover, and protect your assets, be it your business, your information, or yourself, from threats. - Offers powerful techniques for weighing and managing the risks that face your organization - Gives insights into universal principles that can be adapted to specific situations and threats - Covers topics needed by homeland security professionals as well as IT and physical security managers




Risk Analysis and the Security Survey


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Machine generated contents note: Part I: The Treatment and Analysis of Risk Chapter 1: Risk Chapter 2: Vulnerability and Threat Identification Chapter 3: Risk Measurement Chapter 4: Quantifying and Prioritizing Loss Potential Chapter 5: Cost/Benefit Analysis Chapter 6: Other Risk Analysis Methodologies Chapter 7: The Security Survey: An Overview Chapter 8: Management Audit Techniques and the Preliminary Survey Chapter 9: The Survey Report Chapter 10: Crime Prediction Chapter 11: Determining Insurance Requirements Part II: Emergency Managment and Business Continuity Planning Chapter 12: Emergency Management: A Brief Introduction Chapter 13: Emergency Response Planning Chapter 14: Business Continuity Planning Chapter 15: Business Impact Analysis Chapter 16: Plan Documentation Chapter 17: Crisis Management Chapter 18: Monitoring Safeguards Chapter 19: The Security Consultant .




Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP CBK - Fourth Edition


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As an information security professional, it is essential to stay current on the latest advances in technology and the effluence of security threats. Candidates for the CISSP® certification need to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the eight domains of the CISSP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK®), along with the ability to apply this indepth knowledge to daily practices. Recognized as one of the best tools available for security professionals, specifically for the candidate who is striving to become a CISSP, the Official (ISC)²® Guide to the CISSP® CBK®, Fourth Edition is both up-to-date and relevant. Reflecting the significant changes in the CISSP CBK, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the eight domains. Numerous illustrated examples and practical exercises are included in this book to demonstrate concepts and real-life scenarios. Endorsed by (ISC)² and compiled and reviewed by CISSPs and industry luminaries around the world, this textbook provides unrivaled preparation for the certification exam and is a reference that will serve you well into your career. Earning your CISSP is a respected achievement that validates your knowledge, skills, and experience in building and managing the security posture of your organization and provides you with membership to an elite network of professionals worldwide.




Information Security Management Handbook, Fourth Edition


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Whether you are active in security management or studying for the CISSP exam, you need accurate information you can trust. A practical reference and study guide, Information Security Management Handbook, Fourth Edition, Volume 3 prepares you not only for the CISSP exam, but also for your work as a professional. From cover to cover the book gives you the information you need to understand the exam's core subjects. Providing an overview of the information security arena, each chapter presents a wealth of technical detail. The changes in the technology of information security and the increasing threats to security from open systems make a complete and up-to-date understanding of this material essential. Volume 3 supplements the information in the earlier volumes of this handbook, updating it and keeping it current. There is no duplication of material between any of the three volumes. Because the knowledge required to master information security - the Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) - is growing so quickly, it requires frequent updates. As a study guide or resource that you can use on the job, Information Security Management Handbook, Fourth Edition, Volume 3 is the book you will refer to over and over again.




Information Security Management Handbook, Fourth Edition, Volume III


Book Description

Whether you are active in security management or studying for the CISSP exam, you need accurate information you can trust. A practical reference and study guide, Information Security Management Handbook, Fourth Edition, Volume 3 prepares you not only for the CISSP exam, but also for your work as a professional. From cover to cover the book gives you the information you need to understand the exam's core subjects. Providing an overview of the information security arena, each chapter presents a wealth of technical detail. The changes in the technology of information security and the increasing threats to security from open systems make a complete and up-to-date understanding of this material essential. Volume 3 supplements the information in the earlier volumes of this handbook, updating it and keeping it current. There is no duplication of material between any of the three volumes. Because the knowledge required to master information security - the Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) - is growing so quickly, it requires frequent updates. As a study guide or resource that you can use on the job, Information Security Management Handbook, Fourth Edition, Volume 3 is the book you will refer to over and over again.




Building a Corporate Culture of Security


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Building a Corporate Culture of Security: Strategies for Strengthening Organizational Resiliency provides readers with the proven strategies, methods, and techniques they need to present ideas and a sound business case for improving or enhancing security resilience to senior management. Presented from the viewpoint of a leading expert in the field, the book offers proven and integrated strategies that convert threats, hazards, risks, and vulnerabilities into actionable security solutions, thus enhancing organizational resiliency in ways that executive management will accept. The book delivers a much-needed look into why some corporate security practices programs work and others don't. Offering the tools necessary for anyone in the organization charged with security operations, Building a Corporate Culture of Security provides practical and useful guidance on handling security issues corporate executives hesitate to address until it's too late. - Provides a comprehensive understanding of the root causes of the most common security vulnerabilities that impact organizations and strategies for their early detection and prevention - Offers techniques for security managers on how to establish and maintain effective communications with executives, especially when bringing security weakness--and solutions--to them - Outlines a strategy for determining the value and contribution of protocols to the organization, how to detect gaps, duplications and omissions from those protocols, and how to improve their purpose and usefulness - Explores strategies for building professional competencies; managing security operations, and assessing risks, threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences - Shows how to establish a solid foundation for the layering of security and building a resilient protection-in-depth capability that benefits the entire organization - Offers appendices with proven risk management and risk-based metric frameworks and architecture platforms




Risk Analysis and Human Behavior


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The articles collected here are foundational contributions to integrating behavioural research and risk analysis. They include seminal articles on three essential challenges. One is ensuring effective two-way communication between technical experts and the lay public, so that risk analyses address lay concerns and provide useful information to people who need it. The second is ensuring that analyses make realistic assumptions about human behaviours that affect risk levels (e.g., how people use pharmaceuticals, operate equipment, or respond to evacuation orders). The third is ensuring that analyses recognize the strengths and weaknesses of experts’ understanding, using experts’ knowledge, while understanding its limits. The articles include overviews of the science, essays on the role of risk in society, and applications to domains as diverse as environment, medicine, terrorism, human rights, chemicals, pandemics, vaccination, HIV/AIDS, xenotransplantation, sexual assault, energy, and climate change. The work involves collaborations among scientists from many disciplines, working with practitioners to produce and convey the knowledge needed help people make better risk decisions.




Scientific Methods of Inquiry for Intelligence Analysis


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Since 9/11, the needs of intelligence agencies as well as the missions they conduct have increased in number, size, and complexity. As such, government and private security agencies are recruiting staff to analyze the vast amount of data collected in these missions. This textbook offers a way of gaining the analytic skills essential to undertake intelligence work. It acquaints students and analysts with how intelligence fits into the larger research framework. It covers not only the essentials of applied research, but also the function, structure, and operational methods specifically involved in intelligence work. It looks at how analysts work with classified information in a security conscious environment as well as obtain data via covert methods. Students are left with little doubt about what intelligence is and how it is developed using scientific methods of inquiry. This revised edition of the popular text has been expanded and updated significantly.




Keeping Religious Institutions Secure


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Keeping Religious Institutions Secure explores the unique vulnerabilities that churches, synagogues, and mosques face in regards to security, making them attractive to criminals who see them as easy targets. The text illustrates why all places of worship should think about security and the types of breaches that can drive people away. The book focuses on the most frequent security concerns experienced by houses of worship, including embezzlement, vandalism, assault, hate crime, and in rare cases, an active shooter—and how to help prevent them from occurring. Beginning with an overview of the basic security concepts and principles that can enhance the security of any religious facility, it then delves deeply into the particular security concerns of houses of worship, including the use of volunteers, protecting religious leaders, ensuring safety for children and teens, interacting with local law enforcement, handling the media, and much more. - Covers security best practices that are adaptable to any type of religious institution. - Addresses the key security measures—physical, electronic, environmental, and procedural—for protecting people and facilities. - Includes guidance on identifying threats and vulnerabilities and instituting countermeasures for deterring crime and violence.




Strategic Security Management


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Strategic Security Management, Second Edition provides security leadership and decision-makers with a fresh perspective on threat, vulnerability, and risk assessment. The book offers a framework to look at applying security analysis and theory into practice for effective security program, implementation, management and evaluation. Chapters examine metric-based security resource allocation of countermeasures, including security procedures, utilization of personnel, and electronic measures. The new edition is fully updated to reflect the latest industry best-practices and includes contributions from security industry leaders—based on their years of professional experience—including: Nick Vellani, Michael Silva, Kenneth Wheatley, Robert Emery, Michael Haggard. Strategic Security Management, Second Edition will be a welcome addition to the security literature for all security professionals, security managers, and criminal justice students interested in understanding foundational security principles and their application.