Risk Analysis and the Security Survey

Risk Analysis and the Security Survey

4th Edition - December 7, 2011

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  • Authors: James F. Broder, Gene Tucker
  • Hardcover ISBN: 9780123822338
  • eBook ISBN: 9780123822345

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Description

As there is a need for careful analysis in a world where threats are growing more complex and serious, you need the tools to ensure that sensible methods are employed and correlated directly to risk. Counter threats such as terrorism, fraud, natural disasters, and information theft with the Fourth Edition of Risk Analysis and the Security Survey.  Broder and Tucker guide you through analysis to implementation to provide you with the know-how to implement rigorous, accurate, and cost-effective security policies and designs. This book builds on the legacy of its predecessors by updating and covering new content.  Understand the most fundamental theories surrounding risk control, design, and implementation by reviewing topics such as cost/benefit analysis, crime prediction, response planning, and business impact analysis--all updated to match today's current standards. This book will show you how to develop and maintain current business contingency and disaster recovery plans to ensure your enterprises are able to sustain loss are able to recover, and protect your assets, be it your business, your information, or yourself, from threats.

Key Features

  • Offers powerful techniques for weighing and managing the risks that face your organization
  • Gives insights into universal principles that can be adapted to specific situations and threats
  • Covers topics needed by homeland security professionals as well as IT and physical security managers

Readership

Students in security management courses; Security Managers, other security, business professionals at all levels concerned with security, risk mitigation, and the management aspects of security operations

Table of Contents

  • Dedication

    About the Authors

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    1. Risk

    2. Vulnerability and Threat Identification

    3. Risk Measurement

    4. Quantifying and Prioritizing Loss Potential

    5. Cost/Benefit Analysis

    6. Other Risk Analysis Methodologies

    7. The Security Survey

    8. Management Audit Techniques and the Preliminary Survey

    9. The Survey Report

    10. Crime Prediction

    11. Determining Insurance Requirements

    12. Emergency Management – A Brief Introduction

    13. Mitigation and Preparedness

    14. Response Planning

    15. Business Impact Analysis

    16. Business Continuity Planning

    17. Plan Documentation

    18. Crisis Management Planning for Kidnap, Ransom, and Extortion

    19. Monitoring Safeguards

    20. The Security Consultant

    Appendix A. Security Survey Work Sheets

    Appendix B. Sample Kidnap and Ransom Contingency Plan

    Appendix C. Security Systems Specifications

    Index

Product details

  • No. of pages: 368
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2012
  • Published: December 7, 2011
  • Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
  • Hardcover ISBN: 9780123822338
  • eBook ISBN: 9780123822345

About the Authors

James F. Broder

James F. Broder, CFE, CPP, FACFE, has more than 40 years experience in security and law

enforcement. He has worked as a security executive, instructor, and consultant as well as having

served in Vietnam as a Police Advisor in the Counter Insurgency Directorate, Vietnamese

National Police. A former FBI Special Agent and employee for the US State Department, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington D.C. Mr. Broder is considered to be one of the most highly respected security authorities in the United States.

Affiliations and Expertise

James F. Broder, CFE, CPP, FACFE, Independent Security Consultant, San Marino, CA, USA

Gene Tucker

Gene Tucker
Eugene (Gene) Tucker, CPP, CFE, CBCP, CHST, is co-author of Butterworth Heinemann’s Risk Analysis and the Security Survey, 4th edition. He is qualified as a Certified Continuity Manager (CCM) – ISO 22301 Lead Implementer and as an ISO 22301 Lead Auditor, and has extensive international experience as a corporate manager, investigator, trainer and consultant in security, safety, and business continuity planning.

Affiliations and Expertise

President, Praetorian Protective Services® LLC, California, USA

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