Product Description

information is widely regarded as the lifeblood of modern business, but organizations are facing a flood of threats to such 'intellectual capital' - from hackers, viruses and online fraud. increasingly, data protection, privacy regulations, computer misuse and regulations around investigatory powers are part of a complex and often competing range of requirements to which directors must respond. it governance will be essential to board members, executives, owners and managers of any business or organization that depends on information, that uses computers on a regular basis or that has an internet aspect to its overall strategy.

with full coverage of the turnbull report and the combined code (in the uk), and the sarbanes-oxley act (in the us), the book examines standards of best practice for companies looking to protect and enhance their information security management systems, allowing them to ensure that their it security strategies are co-ordinated, coherent, comprehensive and cost effective. each book comes with password-protected access to the www.itgovernance.co.uk website, for the latest news updates in this dynamic and constantly-changing sector.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62740 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

The Times
“Addresses how managers should comply with best practice on the security, confidentiality and integrity of data stored on IT systems.”

Review

“Focuses primarily on the strategic and operational aspects of information security, guiding the businessperson through the process of implementing internationally recognized best practice in information security.”

Journal of Economic Literature

“Written for managers, this addresses how they should comply with best practice on the security, confidentiality and integrity of data stored on IT systems.”

The Times

“Should be read by every computer professional with responsibility for security."

IMIS Journal

IMIS Journal
“Should be read by every computer professional with responsibility for security.”

Customer Reviews

IT Goverance and Open University InfoSec course (M886)
Calder and Watkins considers, in an approachable way, the vulnerabilities that will be faced in for- and not-for-profit organisations at a level that is transferable: neither are they too specific in being technology biased, nor are they too generic at the level of vulnerability monitoring.

Moreover, Calder and Watkins has four other benefits:
* it neatly parallels the structure of the standard;
* each vulerability comes with detailed advice on how to implement a control to cover it;
* there is useful detail on vulnerabilities uncovered because of the use of the control; and, last bu not least,
* there are the trade-offs that arise between covering a vulnerability and leaving it uncovered.

These are very good reasons for studying the book and they're why we chose it as the basis for the Open University's new Information Security Management Course

Dr Jon G Hall, Lecturer in Information Security, Open University, UK

IT Goverance and Open University InfoSec course (M886)
Calder and Watkins considers, in an approachable way, the vulnerabilities that will be faced in for- and not-for-profit organisations at a level that is transferable: neither are they too specific in being technology biased, nor are they too generic at the level of vulnerability monitoring.

Moreover, Calder and Watkins has four other benefits:
* it neatly parallels the structure of the standard;
* each vulerability comes with detailed advice on how to implement a control to cover it;
* there is useful detail on vulnerabilities uncovered because of the use of the control; and, last bu not least,
* there are the trade-offs that arise between covering a vulnerability and leaving it uncovered.

These are very good reasons for studying the book and they're why we chose it as the basis for the Open University's new Information Security Management Course

Dr Jon G Hall, Lecturer in Information Security, Open University, UK