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A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management
Contributor(s): Newsome, Bruce Oliver (Author)
ISBN: 145229027X     ISBN-13: 9781452290270
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
OUR PRICE:   $122.55  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2013
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Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Security (national & International)
- Business & Economics | Leadership
Dewey: 658.47
LCCN: 2013031584
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7.3" W x 9" (1.50 lbs) 408 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management is the first book to introduce the full spectrum of security and risks and their management. Author and field expert Bruce Newsome helps readers learn how to understand, analyze, assess, control, and generally manage security and risks from the personal to the operational. They will develop the practical knowledge and skills they need, including analytical skills, basic mathematical methods for calculating risk in different ways, and more artistic skills in making judgments and decisions about which risks to control and how to control them.

Organized into 16 brief chapters, the book shows readers how to: analyze security and risk; identify the sources of risk (including hazards, threats, and contributors); analyze exposure and vulnerability; assess uncertainty and probability; develop an organization's culture, structure, and processes congruent with better security and risk management; choose different strategies for managing risks; communicate and review; and manage security in the key domains of operations, logistics, physical sites, information, communications, cyberspace, transport, and personal levels.

Contributor Bio(s): Newsome, Bruce Oliver: -

Bruce Oliver Newsome, PhD, is a lecturer in the School of International & Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Before teaching, he was a research policy scientist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California. He earned his undergraduate degree with honors in war studies from Kings College London, a master's degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania, and PhD in international studies from the University of Reading.