By
Joseph Boyce, Employee of the Department of Defense
Daniel Jennings, Information Systems Security Manager, European Command (EUCOM)
Description
Written by two INFOSEC experts, this book provides a systematic and practical approach for establishing, managing and operating a comprehensive
Information Assurance program. It is designed to provide ISSO managers, security managers, and INFOSEC professionals with an understanding
of the essential issues required to develop and apply a targeted information security posture to both public and private corporations
and government run agencies.
There is a growing concern among all corporations and within the security industry to come up with new
approaches to measure an organization's information security risks and posture. Information Assurance explains and defines the theories
and processes that will help a company protect its proprietary information including:
* The need to assess the current level of risk.
* The need to determine what can impact the risk.
* The need to determine how risk can be reduced.
The authors lay out a detailed
strategy for defining information security, establishing IA goals, providing training for security awareness, and conducting airtight
incident response to system compromise. Such topics as defense in depth, configuration management, IA legal issues, and the importance
of establishing an IT baseline are covered in-depth from an organizational and managerial decision-making perspective.
Audience:
Security Managers, INFOSEC Managers, Operational Managers, Information and Operational System Auditors, IT System Administrators and IT Network Managers.
