Guarding Your Business A Management Approach to Security

Guarding Your Business outlines the organizational elements that must be in place to protect the information and physical assets of typical businesses and organizations. The book recognizes the need for an architecture integrated within the organizational environment for systematic protection. Such an architecture is offered along with the building blocks to make organizations resistant to human error and resilient under physical attack or natural disaster. The book addresses risk assessment, determination of quality-of-service levels that balance safety versus cost, security versus privacy, determination of access rights to data and software, and a security-conscious culture in the organization. Questions answered by experts from academia and industry include: How can one organize for security? What organizational structures, policies, and procedures must be in place? What legal and privacy issues must be addressed?

Security Principles for Managers.- The Fundamental Nature of Network Security.- Computer Security: Sophisticated Enemies.- Digital Pearl Harbor: A Case Study in Industry Vulnerability to Cyber Attack.- Cybercrime and the Law: Balancing Privacy against the Need for Security.- Some Security Issues and Concerns in the Financial Services Industry.- Security and Insecurity of Wireless Networks.- Securing Business's Front Door: Password, Token and Biometric Authentication.- Managing Information Security Risks across the Enterprise.- Automatic Security Policy Management in Modern Networks: A New Approach to Security.- The Internal Revenue Service's Mission Assurance Program.- Organizing for Security.- About the Editors.- Index.