How to Complete a Risk Assessment in 5 Days or Less

Successful security professionals have had to modify the process of responding to new threats in the high-profile, ultra-connected business environment. But just because a threat exists does not mean that your organization is at risk. This is what risk assessment is all about. How to Complete a Risk Assessment in 5 Days or Less demonstrates how to identify threats your company faces and then determine if those threats pose a real risk to the organization. To help you determine the best way to mitigate risk levels in any given situation, How to Complete a Risk Assessment in 5 Days or Less includes more than 350 pages of user-friendly checklists, forms, questionnaires, and sample assessments. Presents Case Studies and Examples of all Risk Management Components Based on the seminars of information security expert Tom Peltier, this volume provides the processes that you can easily employ in your organization to assess risk. &nbsp;Answers such FAQs as: <ul> <li>Why should a risk analysis be conducted?</li> <li>Who should review the results?</li> <li>How is the success measured?</li> </ul> Always conscious of the bottom line, Peltier discusses the cost-benefit of risk mitigation and looks at specific ways to manage costs. He supports his conclusions with numerous case studies and diagrams that show you how to apply risk management skills in your organization--and it's not limited to information security risk assessment. You can apply these techniques to any area of your business. This step-by-step guide to conducting risk assessments gives you the knowledgebase and the skill set you need to achieve a speedy and highly-effective risk analysis assessment in a matter of days.

Business & Money

Peltier, Thomas R.

Finance

Auerbach Publications

Risk is a cost of doing business. The question is, "What are the risks, and what are their costs?" Knowing the vulnerabilities and threats that face your organization's information and systems is the first essential step in risk management. Information Security Risk Analysis shows you how to use cost-effective risk analysis techniques to identify and quantify the threats--both accidental and purposeful--that your organization faces. The book steps you through the qualitative risk analysis process using techniques such as PARA (Practical Application of Risk Analysis) and FRAP (Facilitated Risk Analysis Process) to: 
<li>Evaluate tangible and intangible risks 
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<li>Use the qualitative risk analysis process 
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<li>Identify elements that make up a strong Business Impact Analysis 
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<li>Conduct risk analysis with confidence Management looks to you, its information security professional, to provide a process that allows for the systematic review of risk, threats, hazards, and concerns, and to provide cost-effective measures to lower risk to an acceptable level. You can find books that cover risk analysis for financial, environmental, and even software projects, but you will find none that apply risk analysis to information technology and business continuity planning or deal with issues of loss of systems configuration, passwords, information loss, system integrity, CPU cycles, bandwidth, and more. Information Security Risk Analysis shows you how to determine cost effective solutions for your organization's information technology.</li>

Information Security Risk Analysis

Economics

Managing A Network Vulnerability Assessment

The instant access that hackers have to the latest tools and techniques demands that companies become more aggressive in defending the security of their networks. Conducting a network vulnerability assessment, a self-induced hack attack, identifies the network components and faults in policies, and procedures that expose a company to the damage caused by malicious network intruders. Managing a Network Vulnerability Assessment provides a formal framework for finding and eliminating network security threats, ensuring that no vulnerabilities are overlooked. This thorough overview focuses on the steps necessary to successfully manage an assessment, including the development of a scope statement, the understanding and proper use of assessment methodology, the creation of an expert assessment team, and the production of a valuable response report. The book also details what commercial, freeware, and shareware tools are available, how they work, and how to use them. By following the procedures outlined in this guide, a company can pinpoint what individual parts of their network need to be hardened, and avoid expensive and unnecessary purchases.

Peltier, Justin

Blackley, John A.

The Total CISSP Exam Prep Book: Practice Questions, Answers, and Test Taking Tips and Techniques

Until now, those preparing to take the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) examination were not afforded the luxury of studying a single, easy-to-use manual. Written by ten subject matter experts (SMEs) - all CISSPs - this test prep book allows CISSP candidates to test their current knowledge in each of the ten security domains that make up the Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) from which the CISSP examination is based on. The Total CISSP Exam Prep Book: Practice Questions, Answers, and Test Taking Tips and Techniques provides an outline of the subjects, topics, and sub-topics contained within each domain in the CBK, and with it you can readily identify terms and concepts that you will need to know for the exam. The book starts with a review of each of the ten domains and provides 25 sample questions with answers and references for each. It discusses successful approaches for preparing for the exam based on experiences of those who have recently passed the exam. It then provides a complete 250-question practice exam with answers. Explanations are provided to clarify why the correct answers are correct, and why the incorrect answers are incorrect. With a total of 500 sample questions, The Total CISSP Exam Prep Book gives you a full flavor of what it will take to pass the exam.

The Total CISSP Exam Prep Book

Computers & Technology

Howard, Patrick D.

Cartwright, Bob

Certification

Routledge

Information Security Policies and Procedures: A Practitioner’s Reference, Second Edition illustrates how policies and procedures support the efficient running of an organization. This book is divided into two parts, an overview of security policies and procedures, and an information security reference guide. This volume points out how security documents and standards are key elements in the business process that should never be undertaken to satisfy a perceived audit or security requirement. Instead, policies, standards, and procedures should exist only to support business objectives or mission requirements; they are elements that aid in the execution of management policies. The book emphasizes how information security must be integrated into all aspects of the business process. It examines the 12 enterprise-wide (Tier 1) policies, and maps information security requirements to each. The text also discusses the need for top-specific (Tier 2) policies and application-specific (Tier 3) policies and details how they map with standards and procedures. 
It may be tempting to download some organization’s policies from the Internet, but Peltier cautions against that approach. Instead, he investigates how best to use examples of policies, standards, and procedures toward the achievement of goals. He analyzes the influx of national and international standards, and outlines how to effectively use them to meet the needs of your business.

Information Security Policies and Procedures: A Practitioner's Reference, Second Edition

Information Security Risk Analysis, Second Edition

The risk management process supports executive decision-making, allowing managers and owners to perform their fiduciary responsibility of protecting the assets of their enterprises. This crucial process should not be a long, drawn-out affair. To be effective, it must be done quickly and efficiently. Information Security Risk Analysis, Second Edition enables CIOs, CSOs, and MIS managers to understand when, why, and how risk assessments and analyses can be conducted effectively. This book discusses the principle of risk management and its three key elements: risk analysis, risk assessment, and vulnerability assessment. It examines the differences between quantitative and qualitative risk assessment, and details how various types of qualitative risk assessment can be applied to the assessment process. The text offers a thorough discussion of recent changes to FRAAP and the need to develop a pre-screening method for risk assessment and business impact analysis.

The Certified Information Security Manager®(CISM®) certification program was developed by the Information Systems Audit and Controls Association (ISACA®). It has been designed specifically for experienced information security managers and those who have information security management responsibilities. The Complete Guide to CISM® Certification examines five functional areas―security governance, risk management, information security program management, information security management, and response management. 
Presenting definitions of roles and responsibilities throughout the organization, this practical guide identifies information security risks. It deals with processes and technical solutions that implement the information security governance framework, focuses on the tasks necessary for the information security manager to effectively manage information security within an organization, and provides a description of various techniques the information security manager can use. The book also covers steps and solutions for responding to an incident. At the end of each key area, a quiz is offered on the materials just presented. Also included is a workbook to a thirty-question final exam. 
Complete Guide to CISM® Certification describes the tasks performed by information security managers and contains the necessary knowledge to manage, design, and oversee an information security program. With definitions and practical examples, this text is ideal for information security managers, IT auditors, and network and system administrators.

Complete Guide to CISM Certification

This course explains the fundamentals of information security, including threats, Infosec program structure, policies, access control, physical security, and risk analysis. This web-based self-study course takes you through the key steps to understanding and implementing an information security program in your enterprise. By selecting and applying appropriate safeguards, security helps the organization meet its business objectives by protecting its physical and financial resources, reputation, legal position, employees, and other tangible and intangible assets. Security programs include elements of computer security, employee roles and responsibilities and common threats, along with the need for management controls, policies and procedures, and risk analysis.

Information Security Fundamentals On-line Self-study Course

Management & Leadership

CRC-Press

Everything you need to produce a comprehensive set of policies and procedures. Developed by corporate information security guru Tom Peltier and successfully implemented at numerous Fortune 500 companies, Information Security Policy and Procedures will substantially reduce the time and cost usually associated with developing corporate security policies and procedures. In an easy-to-use modular format, it supplies you with everything you need to produce a comprehensive set of policies and procedures, custom-tailored to your organization-quickly, cheaply, and without all the friction and frustration. Here's what you get: A complete set of security policies, definitions, standards, guidelines, and procedures, developed and field-tested by experts and guaranteed to fit your organization's requirements with little or no alterationAll the checklists, templates, forms, and documents required-ready to be customized to fit your company's unique style and focusA CD-ROM containing a complete policies and procedures manual that makes it easy for you to download, modify, arrange, and use them as you see fitExpert guidelines on how to write your own policies and procedures, complete with annotated examples that demonstrate good techniques and pitfalls to avoidStep-by-step guidance on how to manage a policies and procedures development project, using an original, team-oriented approach, used by the author at numerous Fortune 500 companiesExpert advice on how to make a business case for and "sell" your policies and procedures

Information Security Policies and Procedures: A Practitioner's Reference

The instant access that hackers have to the latest tools and techniques demands that companies become more aggressive in defending the security of their networks. Conducting a network vulnerability assessment, a self-induced hack attack, identifies the network components and faults in policies, and procedures that expose a company to the damage caused by malicious network intruders.Managing a Network Vulnerability Assessment provides a formal framework for finding and eliminating network security threats, ensuring that no vulnerabilities are overlooked. This thorough overview focuses on the steps necessary to successfully manage an assessment, including the development of a scope statement, the understanding and proper use of assessment methodology, the creation of an expert assessment team, and the production of a valuable response report. The book also details what commercial, freeware, and shareware tools are available, how they work, and how to use them.By following the procedures outlined in this guide, a company can pinpoint what individual parts of their network need to be hardened, and avoid expensive and unnecessary purchases.

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How to Complete a Risk Assessment in 5 Days or Less

Information Security Risk Analysis

Managing A Network Vulnerability Assessment

The Total CISSP Exam Prep Book

Information Security Policies and Procedures: A Practitioner's Reference, Second Edition

Information Security Risk Analysis, Second Edition

Complete Guide to CISM Certification

Information Security Fundamentals On-line Self-study Course

Information Security Policies and Procedures: A Practitioner's Reference

Managing A Network Vulnerability Assessment