| Guarding Your Business: A Management Approach to Security 2004 Edition Contributor(s): Malek, Manu (Editor), Ghosh, Sumit (Editor), Stohr, Edward A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0306484943 ISBN-13: 9780306484940 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2004 Annotation: 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? |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Electrical - Mathematics | Applied - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies |
| Dewey: 005.74 |
| LCCN: 2004044179 |
| Series: Modern Approaches in Geophysics |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.72" W x 10.08" (1.55 lbs) 252 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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? |