Management Of Information Security

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Joseph Sherif, Fullerton University, “I CANNOT WAIT TO ADOPT IT. This book is the best for students and practitioners.”

Denise Padavano, Pierce College, “I would adopt this book for an introductory security management course or a survey course on security management. It covers all the things that are important and the authors did a good job of making the book concise.”

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Information security-driven topic coverage is the basis for this updated book that will benefit readers in the information technology and business fields alike. Management of Information Security, provides an overview of information security from a management perspective, as well as a thorough understanding of the administration of information security. Written by two Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP), this book has the added credibility of incorporating the CISSP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK), especially in the area of information security management. The second edition has been updated to maintain the industry currency and academic relevance that made the previous edition so popular, and case studies and examples continue to populate the book, providing real-life applications for the topics covered.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology; 2 edition (March 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1423901304
• ISBN-13: 978-1423901303
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #166,603 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Philosophical (Textbook) exposition of InfoSec, November 6, 2004

By	Patrick Thompson (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Management of Information Security (Paperback)

If you're looking to get down into the nitty-gritty of infosec, for ways and methods of securing networks and systems, then this probably isn't the book you need. This is a textbook and so it overs a fairly high level viewpoint, even philosophical approach, to infosec. The granualarity just isn't there for the practising person to gain much from this in a substantive way.

That said, the book does provide a readable and useful overview of all aspects of the infosec planning and administration process. Each chapter has questions yet no answers. Chapters include:

Introduction to the management of info sec
Planning for infosec
Planning for contingencies
Information security policy
Developing the security program
Security Management models and practices
Risk Management: identifying and assessning risk
RIsk Management: Assessing and controlling risk
Protectiion Mechanisms
Personnel and security
Law and Ethics
Information Security Project management (the weakest chapter in the book...meant as an introduction)

While the authors won't tell you how to configure a firewall for example, they will teach you who, how and why this must be done and what must be done to guide and support decisions like this in an organizational environment. This book is about top down security management. It teaches you to use policy, procedures, people, programs, projects and planning in a three dimenional security matrix: confidentiality, integrity, availability, security, transmission, processing, policy, technology and education/training with regard to people, data, hardware, software and procedures, all within the methodology of the secSDLC. So it is a philsophical journey thorugh the heart of the matter written by two guys who obviously know and enjoy their subject.

This books is well written and has a number inserts highlighting differrent things like different types of attacks, concepts like human firewalls and such that enhance the readability while leading a connection to reality that threatens to become a little tenuous when dealing with much abstraction.

SO, a good textbook. I used it for a subject I took and found it useful. WHile it may be a little dry at times, due to the technical nature of the material, if you are serious about learning information security then the need to be consistently entertained is probably just a little alien to your nature anyway. This book will give you an excellent grounding in the things you should be condisering and doing when planning, analyzing, designing, implementing and managing and maintaining infosec.

An excellent addition and support for the material presented in the book- as referred by the authors- is bunch of free materials published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, found at the computer security resource center. These include papers such as SP 800-12, SP 800-14, and so forth. The website is http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/ It is important to check this out if you are serious about infosec. This book is a good starting point for deliving deeper into that world.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Let's be as unclear as possible..., September 30, 2009

By	Simon Schofield (Australia) - See all my reviews

The book is quite frustrating if you need to use it for your studies as I do.

A lot of it is really obvious, but the authors do like to repeat and rehash points in quite a confusing order. They would be better off providing more examples that fit exactly with what they are trying to explain, but instead they grabbed too many examples from other sources, which do not appear to fit as neatly with their processes as I suspect would be best. It certainly fills up the pages, but adds confusion. It's a big subject, so it will never be an easy task, but surely these guys can employ writers to look at their work objectively. Too many technical people write books with the notion of the book being very good because they think everyone thinks like they think... Wrong.

And to be honest it is a boring book. It's not even like it's a boring subject, because it really does affect so much of our working and personal lives nowadays. Somehow they just seemed to be able to make it seem more excruitatingly boring than it really is!... I suppose that's a skill in itself!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Need a InfoSec Book?, March 28, 2007

By	Errol A. Blake "Mr. Blake" (Kennesaw, GA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Management of Information Security (Paperback)

This book covers everything pertaining to managing Information Security. This book is very informative. I currently have this book in my library, where i still use it as a reference when writing information security related papers.