The Security Risk Assessment Handbook 2nd Edition by Landoll

The Security Risk Assessment Handbook: A Complete Guide for Performing Security Risk Assessments 2nd Edition by Douglas Landoll offers detailed instruction on how to conduct a risk assessment effectively and efficiently. Supplying wide-ranging coverage that includes security risk analysis, mitigation, and risk assessment reporting, this updated edition provides the tools needed to solicit and review the scope and rigor of risk assessment proposals with competence and confidence.

Trusted to assess security for leading organizations and government agencies, including the CIA, NSA, and NATO, Douglas Landoll unveils the little-known tips, tricks, and techniques used by savvy security professionals in the field. He details time-tested methods to help you better negotiate the scope and rigor of security assessments, effectively interface with security assessment teams, gain an improved understanding of final report recommendations and deliver insightful comments on draft reports.

Conducted properly, information security risk assessments provide managers with the feedback needed to understand threats to corporate assets, determine vulnerabilities of current controls, and select appropriate safeguards. Performed incorrectly, they can provide the false sense of security that allows potential threats to develop into disastrous losses of proprietary information, capital, and corporate value.

The book includes charts, checklists, and sample reports to help you speed up the data gathering, analysis, and document development process. Walking you through the process of conducting an effective security assessment, it provides the tools and up-to-date understanding you need to select the security measures best suited to your organization.

Douglas Landoll has over 20 years of information security experience. He has led security risk assessments establishing security programs within top corporations and government agencies. He is an expert in security risk assessment, security risk management, security criteria/compliance and building corporate security programs.

Book Details

Hardcover: 495 pages
Publisher: CRC Press; 2 edition (May 20, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1439821488

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