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Information Security: Protecting the Global Enterprise
Contributor(s): Pipkin, Donald L. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0130173231     ISBN-13: 9780130173232
Publisher: Pearson
OUR PRICE: $42.74  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: May 2000
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Annotation:
  • Information security, start to finish: inspection, protection, detection, reaction, and reflection
  • Analyzing your most critical risks and threats
  • Defining an information security strategy and architecture
  • Planning and responding to intruders
  • Legal and public relations implications

    • Computer and network security: the technical, legal, and business issues.

    In "Information Security: Protecting the Global Enterprise," IT security expert Donald Pipkin addresses every aspect of information security: the business issues, the technical process issues, and the legal issues--including the personal liabilities of corporate officers in protecting information assets. Pipkin starts by reviewing the key business issues associated with protecting information assets, and determining the appropriate levels of protection and response to security incidents. Next, he walks through the technical processes required to build a consistent, reasonable information security system, with appropriate intrusion detection and reporting features. Coverage includes:

    • Inspection: Risk analysis, resource inventory, threat assessment, business impact analysis, safeguards, and more
    • Protection: Information security design, vision, architecture, strategies, frameworks, and implementation
    • Detection: Types of intruders, methods and profiles of detection
    • Reaction: Incident response plans, documentation, determination, notification, assessment, repair, and recovery
    • Reflection: Post-incident procedures, timelines, technical and management responses, process improvements, and public relations

    Whether your roleis technical or managerial, no matter what size your enterprise is, Information Security delivers the insight and guidance you need to protect your most vital asset: information.

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    Additional Information
    BISAC Categories:
    - Computers | Security - General
    - Computers | Networking - General
    Dewey: 005.8
    LCCN: 00032686
    Series: Hewlett-Packard Professional Books
    Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.59" W x 9.17" L (1.47 lbs) 400 pages
    Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2000 pg. 203
     
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    Publisher Description:
    -- Covers every stage of information security planning and deployment: inspection, protection, detection, reaction, and reflection.
    -- Risk analysis, resource inventory, threat assessment, and business impact analysis.
    -- Designing a high-level information security strategy and architecture.

    In this book, IT security expert Donald Pipkin addresses every aspect of information security: the business issues, the technical process issues, and the legal issues. Pipkin starts by reviewing the key business issues: estimating the value of information assets, evaluating the cost to the organization if they are lost or disclosed, and determining the appropriate levels of protection and response to security incidents. Next, he walks through the technical processes required to build a consistent, reasonable information security system, with appropriate intrusion detection and reporting features. Finally, Pipkin reviews the legal issues associated with information security, including corporate officers' personal liability for taking care that information is protected. The book's coverage is applicable to businesses of any size, from 50 employees to 50,000 or more, and ideal for everyone who needs at least a basic understanding of information security: network/system administrators, managers, planners, architects, and executives alike.
     
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