Responsive Security: Be Ready to Be Secure

Responsive Security: Be Ready to Be Secure

Meng-Chow Kang

Language: English

Pages: 259

ISBN: 1466584300

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Responsive Security: Be Ready to Be Secure explores the challenges, issues, and dilemmas of managing information security risk, and introduces an approach for addressing concerns from both a practitioner and organizational management standpoint. Utilizing a research study generated from nearly a decade of action research and real-time experience, this book introduces the issues and dilemmas that fueled the study, discusses its key findings, and provides practical methods for managing information security risks. It presents the principles and methods of the responsive security approach, developed from the findings of the study, and details the research that led to the development of the approach.

  • Demonstrates the viability and practicality of the approach in today’s information security risk environment
  • Demystifies information security risk management in practice, and reveals the limitations and inadequacies of current approaches
  • Provides comprehensive coverage of the issues and challenges faced in managing information security risks today

The author reviews existing literature that synthesizes current knowledge, supports the need for, and highlights the significance of the responsive security approach. He also highlights the concepts, strategies, and programs commonly used to achieve information security in organizations.

Responsive Security: Be Ready to Be Secure

examines the theories and knowledge in current literature, as well as the practices, related issues, and dilemmas experienced during the study. It discusses the reflexive analysis and interpretation involved in the final research cycles, and validates and refines the concepts, framework, and methodology of a responsive security approach for managing information security risk in a constantly changing risk environment.

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This chapter at the end of 2012, this goal has not been reported as accomplished. The bias toward a quantitative measurement of risk (noted at the CRA conference and in general) has been fueled by the notion that “we cannot manage if we cannot measure.” The CRA conference participants also noted that “what you measure is what you get” and “measuring the wrong thing is as bad, or [is] worse than not measuring anything at all.” The group cited a need for the measures to be consistent, unbiased, and.

May find, for instance, after exercising every precaution that his data contain some unknown disturbing factor, and this may be due to the failure to separate in his sample two classes that should have been separated. When the statistician is himself in control of the collection of the data for his investigation, the difficulty is not insuperable, although it may mean a large added amount of labor. But when he is forced to use data collected by Knowledge, Issues, and Dilemmas 21 others,.

That had a clear impact. Over time, a culture of compliance emerged and drove the behaviors of individuals and groups. Managing compliance equaled risk management. Selecting appropriate metrics became critical to the success of implementation of the principle. How was such a culture of compliance possible, given that the system had functional separation of the IRM from the business and independence of auditors who reported to the board rather than to business management? The following subsections.

That had a clear impact. Over time, a culture of compliance emerged and drove the behaviors of individuals and groups. Managing compliance equaled risk management. Selecting appropriate metrics became critical to the success of implementation of the principle. How was such a culture of compliance possible, given that the system had functional separation of the IRM from the business and independence of auditors who reported to the board rather than to business management? The following subsections.

Much as five minutes’ warning to escape to high ground. That may have been enough time for many of the people who were killed by the 2004 tsunami to save themselves, if only they knew what to do (National Geographic 2004). According to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), a teenage girl who was on vacation in Thailand saw the waves and recalled a geography lesson about tsunamis and alerted her family and other tourists and saved them from the disaster (BBC Online 2005, Telegraph 2005). An.

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