Risk Management for Security Professionals

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Author: Carl Roper

ISBN-10: 0750671130

ISBN-13: 9780750671132

Category: Risk Management

This book describes the risk management methodology as a specific process, a theory, or a procedure for determining your assets, vulnerabilities, and threats and how security professionals can protect them. \ Risk Management for Security Professionals is a practical handbook for security managers who need to learn risk management skills. It goes beyond the physical security realm to encompass all risks to which a company may be exposed. Risk Management as presented in this book has several...

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Provides a stand-alone guide to the risk management process Helps security professionals learn the risk countermeasures and their pros and cons Addresses a systematic approach to logical decision-making about the allocation of scarce security resources This book describes the risk management methodology as a specific process, a theory, or a procedure for determining your assets, vulnerabilities, and threats and how security professionals can protect them. Risk Management as presented in this book has several goals: provides the reader with a standardized common approach to risk management through a framework that effectively links security strategies and related costs to realistic threat assessment and risk levels; offers a flexible yet structured framework that can be applied to the risk assessment and decision support process in support of your business or organization; increases awareness in terms of potential loss impacts, threats and vulnerabilities to organizational assets; ensures that various security recommendations are based on an integrated assessment of loss impacts, threats, vulnerabilities and resource constraints. Booknews Goes beyond the physical security realm to encompass all risks to which a company may be exposed, and provides a systematic approach to acquiring and analyzing information necessary to support decision- makers in protection of assets and allocation of security resources. Offers recommendations for managers who are responsible for accepting risks and planning and funding security programs, and illustrates situational solutions for classified or unclassified government and civilian environments. Includes forms, assessment sheets, and checklists. The author is a consultant in the field. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Risk Management: A Short History and Its Importance Key Terms and Definitions Risk Management Process Overview Asset Identification Threat Identification and Assessment Conducting the Site Specific Threat Assessment Vulnerability Identification and Assessment The Risk Assessment The Risk Assessment Cost-Benefit Analysis Risk Management and Your Organization Appendix A: Risk Management Case Study and Practical Exercises Appendix B: Forms Used in the Risk Management Process Appendix C: Are You Safeguarding the Crown Jewels - Determining Critical and Sensitive Information Appendix D: Obtaining Asset Information - Conducting Interviews Appendix E: Technology Collection Trends in the U.S. Defense Industry Appendix F: The Foreign Threat to U.S. Business Travelers Appendix G: Intelligence Organizations Appendix H: The FBI National Security Awareness Program Appendix I: Economic & Espionage News for the Risk Manager

\ BooknewsGoes beyond the physical security realm to encompass all risks to which a company may be exposed, and provides a systematic approach to acquiring and analyzing information necessary to support decision- makers in protection of assets and allocation of security resources. Offers recommendations for managers who are responsible for accepting risks and planning and funding security programs, and illustrates situational solutions for classified or unclassified government and civilian environments. Includes forms, assessment sheets, and checklists. The author is a consultant in the field. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \