Executive’s Handbook of Information Security


This guide provides in-depth introduction to the key issues surrounding information security in the digital age, highlights the impact of these issues, and recommends risk mitigation strategies to anticipate, and avoid losing business value because of them. Excellent Read! (400 pages)


The handbook of information security in the digital age covers the following topics:

  • What is information security?
  • What are the unique threats facing business in the digital age?
  • What is the potential impact of these threats - what can go wrong? what will that cost your business?
  • How to create an effective, and comprehensive information security strategy?
  • How to create an effective information security governance?
  • How to create a risk management strategy for information security?
  • What are some best practices to effective information security?
  • What is the role of senior management, and the board in information security? What should the executive management, and the board be aware of? What should they be prepared on?
  • What should the IT organization do to address information security risk?
  • How to create an effective information security risk mitigation plan?
  • How to recruit, train, and manage an information security aware organization - in, and outside of IT?
  • How to improve collaboration between IT, and business to strengthen information security?
  • How to create a program to detect a breach in information security?
  • How to create an effective response to an information security breach?
  • How to manage the increase in threats to information security because of extended organizational boundaries due to outsourcing, and other partnerships?
  • What are the legal, and regulatory considerations in information security?

This is the one document every CIO should read, and share with their peers, and the CEO to gain a uniform understanding of the threats to information security, and create an effective enterprise-wide strategy, governance, and plan to deal with them.




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