The book covers a decade of work with some of the largest commercial and government agencies around the world in addressing cyber security related to malicious insiders (trusted employees, contractors, and partners). It explores organised crime, terrorist threats, and hackers. It addresses the steps organisations must take to address insider threats at a people, process, and technology level.
Today's headlines are littered with news of identity thieves, organized cyber criminals, corporate espionage, nation-state threats, and terrorists. They represent the next wave of security threats but still possess no-where near the devastating potential of the most insidious threat: the insider. This is not the bored 16-year-old hacker. We are talking about insiders like you and me, trusted employees with access to information - consultants, contractors, partners, visitors, vendors, and cleaning crews. Anyone in an organisation's building or networks that possesses some level of trust.
Audience:
The audience for this book is diverse because those impacted by insiders are also diverse. For those not familiar with insider threats, it will provide a strong foundation. For the expert, it will supply useful anecdotes and outline countermeasures.
While the book itself isn't technical by design, certain subjects do require technical elaboration. Portions of it are designed to address strategic business-level objectives. But since insider threat requires responses from IT operations and security analysts as well as from managers and executives, the book has been written for an inclusive audience.
Anyone interested in insider threat, regardless of business perspective, will find useful information within these pages.
Reviews of the Book:
'Throughout, the author uses his extensive personal experiences to illustrate Internet security breaches and provide countermeasures. This book requires little if any technical background and is intended to appeal to a broad audience.'
- Choice, E. M. Aupperle
'Insider threats warrant being among the top concerns of IT professionals and businesses alike. While there are a lot of books on security, very few address the growing concern over insider threats. The cyber crime overview, explanations of ESM countermeasures, and the wealth of real-life case studies contained in Contos’s book explore this difficult problem with honest lessons learned, and it also describes some best practices derived from organisations around the word…'
- Amit Yoran, information security expert and former member of the Department of Defense's Computer Emergency Response Team and President Bush's former National Cyber Security Director at the Department of Homeland Security
Author: Brian Contos
Publisher: Syngress Press
Format: Soft Cover
ISBN 10: 1597491292
ISBN 13: 9781597491297
Pages: 262
Published Date: October 2006
Availability: Ex Stock
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