Management of Information Security

by Herbert J. Mattord and Michael E. Whitman

Book Overview

MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION SECURITY, Sixth Edition prepares you to become an information security management practitioner able to secure systems and networks in a world where continuously emerging... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1285062299
• ISBN13: 9781285062297
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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This book covers everything pertaining to managing Information Security. This book is very informative. I currently have this book in my library, where i still use it as a reference when writing information security related papers.

Philosophical (Textbook) exposition of InfoSec

If you're looking to get down into the nitty-gritty of infosec, for ways and methods of securing networks and systems, then this probably isn't the book you need. This is a textbook and so it overs a fairly high level viewpoint, even philosophical approach, to infosec. The granualarity just isn't there for the practising person to gain much from this in a substantive way. That said, the book does provide a readable and useful overview of all aspects of the infosec planning and administration process. Each chapter has questions yet no answers. Chapters include: Introduction to the management of info sec Planning for infosec Planning for contingencies Information security policy Developing the security program Security Management models and practices Risk Management: identifying and assessning risk RIsk Management: Assessing and controlling risk Protectiion Mechanisms Personnel and security Law and Ethics Information Security Project management (the weakest chapter in the book...meant as an introduction) While the authors won't tell you how to configure a firewall for example, they will teach you who, how and why this must be done and what must be done to guide and support decisions like this in an organizational environment. This book is about top down security management. It teaches you to use policy, procedures, people, programs, projects and planning in a three dimenional security matrix: confidentiality, integrity, availability, security, transmission, processing, policy, technology and education/training with regard to people, data, hardware, software and procedures, all within the methodology of the secSDLC. So it is a philsophical journey thorugh the heart of the matter written by two guys who obviously know and enjoy their subject. This books is well written and has a number inserts highlighting differrent things like different types of attacks, concepts like human firewalls and such that enhance the readability while leading a connection to reality that threatens to become a little tenuous when dealing with much abstraction. SO, a good textbook. I used it for a subject I took and found it useful. WHile it may be a little dry at times, due to the technical nature of the material, if you are serious about learning information security then the need to be consistently entertained is probably just a little alien to your nature anyway. This book will give you an excellent grounding in the things you should be condisering and doing when planning, analyzing, designing, implementing and managing and maintaining infosec. An excellent addition and support for the material presented in the book- as referred by the authors- is bunch of free materials published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, found at the computer security resource center. These include papers such as SP 800-12, SP 800-14, and so forth. The website is http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/ It is important to check this out if you are serious abou