Safety Net: Protecting Your Business on the Internet [Hardcover]

Kathleen Sindell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2002

A hands-on guide for managers to keep their on-line business secure
Written by a respected expert in the field of e-commerce, Safety Net shows managers, considering Web commerce, the different types of attacks online businesses can experience and details prevention, detection, and recovery countermeasures. Kathleen Sindell provides managers with easy-to-follow directions on how to determine exactly how vulnerable their current system is and how to create an effective security policy that meets the unique requirements of an online business. Readers will learn how to set security policies for customers and internal users; uncover the most common online business vulnerabilities; ensure their business from new types of frauds and cyber crimes; acquire defense tactics for today and tomorrow's virus outbreaks; use multitiered security approaches for protecting distributed offices; and much more.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This account of the rise of cyber crime has useful lessons for managers.... Kathleen Sindell argues that internet security is a serious management issue, and her book, Safety Net, is designed to be both a wake up call and a handbook to help managers get the right policies in place." (Financial Times, June 19, 2002)

"...the clarity of concepts, abundance of resources and jargon-free language really do make me recommend this book..." (M2 Best Books, 30 August 2002)

From the Inside Flap

Safety Net

The facts:
* U.S. business-to-business online transactions will reach $1.3 trillion by 2003
* A 2001 CSI/FBI survey of 538 organizations indicated that 69 percent of respondents experienced computer breaches in 2000
* Companies averaged a loss of $256,000 to security breaches in 2000
* Computer crime cost U.S. companies around $10 billion in 2001

Every day, online businesses and their customers are threatened by fraud, sabotage, espionage, piracy, identity theft, and other forms of electronic warfare. Financial losses due to these security breaches are costly in terms of hard costs (monetary and productivity losses) and the more damaging, long-term public relations costs (customer and reputation losses). Safety Net: Protecting Your Business on the Internet is the first book written specifically for managers that will show you the different types of attacks your online business can suffer. Written by respected e-commerce expert Kathleen Sindell, this hands-on guide provides practical information for a clearer understanding of prevention, detection, and recovery countermeasures to make your e-business a safe haven for customers.

Safety Net is written in accessible, nontechnical language to provide you with practical solutions to your most pressing concerns. Here you'll discover concise, easy-to-follow directions that will help you make security risk assessments and create an effective security policy that meets the unique needs of your online business and your organization. You'll learn how to take advantage of the currently available technology to combat security threats and consequently win the confidence and trust of your customers, who will return to your Web site again and again.

Whether it's protecting your customers' credit card data, the personal information of customers, your business processes, or intellectual property, Safety Net provides expert advice on:
* Familiarizing yourself with the top security issues for online businesses
* Assessing the security level of your Web-based business
* Determining the impact of security on your bottom line
* Protecting your system from intruders
* Understanding the security risks to your Web server
* Determining what you can expect from a firewall
* Understanding insider threats
* And much more!

A successful e-business is based on trust. Learn how to secure the confidence of your valued e-customers by enacting the easy-to-follow safety precautions outlined in Safety Net.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (March 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471079626
• ISBN-13: 978-0471079620
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,016,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kathleen Sindell, Ph.D. has over 20 years of success providing financial analysis and personal financial advice to businesses and individuals to assist them with their investment activities and financial decision-making. She is a registered investment advisor, and certified to teach Business and Industrial Management, Banking and Finance by the California Board of Governors. For over four years she managed the Financial Management and Real Estate programs and faculty at the University of Maryland, UMUC Graduate School of Management & Technology.. For 14 years Kathleen Sindell has been an adjunct faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, where she teaches corporate finance, personal investing and personal wealth management. Sindell is the author of numerous academic, popular, and professional articles, Web sites and books, including the bestselling book, "Investing Online for Dummies, Eds. 1-5" (listed for two consecutive years on the Wall Street Journal's Bestselling Business Book List). Sindell is regularly tapped as an expert on ABC World News, CNNfn, The Nightly Business Report, and at popular online and print outlets. Kathleen Sindell holds a Ph.D. in management & administration and an MBA in Finance. At the request of Irwin Professional Publishing, she converted her dissertation, titled "A Risk Management Approach for Financial Institutions Holding Construction Loans" to a 520 page book titled, "The Handbook of Real Estate Lending".

Customer Reviews

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A business book for managing networks & online enterprises, April 9, 2002

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Kathleen Sindell - See all my reviews

This review is from: Safety Net: Protecting Your Business on the Internet (Hardcover)

Protecting your online business is a never-ending battle between security systems and existing technologies and the sophistication of those seeking to thwart them. Defending your network or web-based business does not rest solely on finding the solution to just one security problem; it relies on your ability to devise an entire program that puts a stop to the security hazards you face today and anticipates those you may face tommorrow. SAFETY NET reveals the different types of attacks your online business can experience and details prevention, detection, and recovery countermeasures you can employ to protect your business from financial losses due to online sabotage.

5.0 out of 5 stars M2 Best Books Review, August 30, 2002, by Rebecca Sanderman, May 6, 2009

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Kathleen Sindell (Alexandria, VA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Safety Net: Protecting Your Business on the Internet (Hardcover)

"Security for Internet business is a big deal... a complex and confusing big deal at that. From reading 'Safety Net' it is my belief that Kathleen Sindell grasped that and tackled it head on when writing this book. The blurb announces that it "...is written in accessible, nontechnical language to provide you with practical solutions to your most pressing concerns..." but sometimes blurbs can lie! Happily in this case it doesn't and as soon as you commence reading you realise this."

5.0 out of 5 stars Editioal Review, October 14, 2008

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Kathleen Sindell "EZWriter" (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews
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REVIEW: Safety Net: Protecting Your Business on the Internet

Rebecca Sanderman
M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

Security for Internet business is a big deal... a complex and confusing big deal at that. From reading 'Safety Net' it is my belief that Kathleen Sindell grasped that and tackled it head on when writing this book. The blurb announces that it "...is written in accessible, nontechnical language to provide you with practical solutions to your most pressing concerns..." but sometimes blurbs can lie! Happily in this case it doesn't and as soon as you commence reading you realise this.

You are taken through what seems to be every element of Internet security from vulnerable web servers to how to handle public relations after you've been breached and this is all done in a very logical way. The first section addresses exactly what the book is about, who it is aimed at, how it is organised and how to use it, with the rest of the book following on in the same logical order.

I found that throughout the whole book the tone in which it is written is both encouraging yet reassuring without being patronising. This, like the nontechnical language, is evident from the very start, "...If you cannot find the topic, look it up in the glossary. You may discover that it is included in the book but is referred to in a way you did not anticipate...Information security is a complex field: Don't feel bad if you have to use the table of contents, index and glossary frequently...", so you are reassured that on first glance you may not find what you are looking for, but there are plenty of resources to help you find it. Fortunately the suggestion to use the referencing tools is backed up by high quality indexes and glossaries so the reader should have no problem finding that obscure piece of information.

'Safety Net's' straightforward, logical and honest approach really did make a difference to my reading and understanding of the intricacies of e-business security. Having read books on the same subject before and been completely baffled by them I was a little wary when presented with this one. However Sindell certainly knows how to make something which is potentially very confusing easily understandable.

CONCLUSION: The clarity of concepts, abundance of resources and jargon-free language really do make me recommend this book to anyone who requires in-depth, yet understandable information concerning Internet security issues.

Title: Safety Net: Protecting Your Business on the Internet Author: Kathleen Sindell Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc ISBN: 0-471-07962-6 Price: USD29.95 Reviewer: Rebecca Sanderman

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