Metrics and Methods for Security Risk Management

About the Author Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Part I The Structure of Security Risk     Chapter 1 Security Threats and Risk          1.1 Introduction to Security Risk or Tales of the Psychotic Squirrel and the Sociable Shark          1.2 The Fundamental Expression of Security Risk          1.3 Introduction to Security Risk Models and Security Risk Mitigation          1.4 Summary     Chapter 2 The Fundamentals of Security Risk Measurements          2.1 Introduction          2.2 Linearity and Non-linearity          2.3 Exponents, Logarithms and Sensitivity to Change          2.4 The Exponential Function ex          2.5 The Decibel (dB)          2.6 Security Risk and the Concept of Scale          2.7 Some Common Physical Models in Security Risk          2.8 Visualizing Security Risk          2.9 An Example: Guarding Costs          2.10 Summary     Chapter 3 Risk Measurements and Security Programs          3.1 Introduction          3.2 The Security Risk Assessment Process          3.3 Managing Security Risk          3.4 Security Risk Audits          3.5 Security Risk Program Frameworks          3.6 Summary Part II Measuring and Mitigating Security Risk     Chapter 4 Measuring the Likelihood Component of Security Risk          4.1 Introduction          4.2 Likelihood or Potential for Risk?          4.3 Estimating the Likelihood of Randomly Occurring Security Incidents          4.4 Estimating The Potential for Biased Security Incidents          4.5 Averages and Deviations          4.6 Actuarial Approaches to Security Risk          4.7 Randomness, Loss, and Expectation Value          4.8 Financial Risk          4.9 Summary     Chapter 5 Measuring the Vulnerability Component of Security Risk          5.1 Introduction          5.2 Vulnerability to Information Loss through Unauthorized Signal Detection          5.3 Vulnerability to Explosive Threats          5.4 A Theory of Vulnerability to Computer Network Infections          5