By
William C. Boni, CISA, MBA, Director, Information Security for Motorola Corporation. He has worked as the Director of Information Protection Practices
for Amgen; as a U.S. Army counterintelligence officer; federal agent and investigator; and a security consultant for such firms as PricewaterhouseCoopers
and Ernst & Young
Gerald Kovacich, CFE, CPP, CISSP, Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Protection Professional, and Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Washington, USA
Description
This book begins by laying out a history of espionage that clearly shows that when a new technology or technique becomes available to
the information gatherers in public and private sectors, they can quickly be adopted for Netspionage use. It then moves on to describe
how the Internet and associated technologies have already revolutionized the collection and analysis of competitive information. The
convergence of dependency on networked and exploitation tools (often propagated by "hackers," "cyberpunks," and even intelligence agencies)
has already resulted in several incidents that foreshadow the perilous future. Close study of these incidents demonstrates how difficult
yet how important it is to confront the challenges of "netspionage" and its less intrusive cousins. The authors present a set of the
known incidents and then outline protective measures that will reduce the potential and consequences of netspionage.
Unlike most security
books, this one is written for managers and executives in non-protection roles of the organization, since they are the ones who must
take a leadership role in safeguarding the information assets of the networked enterprise.
Audience:
Information security professionals and security managers
