The Security Risk Assessment Handbook: A Complete Guide for Performing Security Risk Assessments

A handbook to performing information security risk assessments - buy your copy today!

This handbook provides detailed instructions on how to conduct an information risk assessment. Topics covered in this handbook include:

• Security risk analysis
• Mitigation
• Risk assessment reporting

After reading this book you will be competent and confident enough to review the scope of risk assessment proposals.

The author shares tips, tricks and techniques that are used by wise security professionals. He details tried and tested methods that will 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
• Deliver insightful comments on draft reports

Included in the book are charts, checklists and sample reports, this means you have no need to start from scratch creating documents or spend hours with analysis. Simply use the tools that are in this book to speed up the whole process.

Detailing how to conduct an effective and efficient security risk assessment, this book will guide you every step of the way. It will also help you select the right security measures to protect your organization.

Key Features and Benefits:

• Supplies detailed instructions on how to perform effective risk assessments - guiding you every step of the way and helping you to secure your organization.
• Presents little-known tips, tricks, and techniques of savvy security professionals - enabling you to speed up the information security risk assessment process.
• Includes charts and checklists to speed up the data gathering, analysis, and document development processes. This means you have no need to develop documents from scratch or spend hours on analysis, saving you hours and hundreds of $$$$$$.
• Covers security risk analysis, mitigation, and risk assessment reporting. Not many books cover this subject, making it a one-stop resource.
• Provides the understanding required to better negotiate the scope and rigor of risk assessment proposals - giving you the skills to succeed with an information security risk assessment.

Author: Douglas Landoll
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN 10: 1439821488
ISBN 13: 9781439821480
Pages: 495
Format: Hardcover
Published Date: 20 May 2011
Availability: In Stock

Information security risk assessment is the foundation of information security according to ISO 27001 - order this guide today!