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NEW INFORMATION SECURITY BOOK FOCUSES ON EXECUTIVES AND GOVERNANCE
Dateline: November 14, 2005 ... Livermore, CA
Contact Name: Fred Cohen, Fred Cohen & Associates
Contact Phone/Fax: 925-454-0171
E-mail: fcapr@all.net
Web Address: http://all.net/
LIVERMORE, CA - November 14, 2005 - Fred Cohen & Associates
(http://all.net) just released the first book on information security
with comprehensive coverage of security governance for enterprises
titled, "The Chief Information Security Officer's Toolkit: Governance
Guidebook"
Oriented toward MIS leaders and security and business executives, this
book is comprehensive in its coverage and provides all of the
information top level decision makers need to know to make sound
information security decisions. According to its author, Dr. Fred
Cohen, "This book fills the growing gap between technology and
business know-how in information security."
There are more and more books on information security coming out, but
none of them have either the focus or the credentials behind them of
the "Governance Guidebook". Dr. Cohen, the first researcher to publish
information on computer viruses, has long been a world leader in
information protection. The book fuses together years of research and
consulting for the largest corporations in the world, into a single
volume that is an invaluable resource for the security executive or
business leader.
The "Governance Guidebook" was designed for executives. It puts
security firmly into a business context with coverage ranging from
regulatory coverage and defining the duty to protect, to how to manage
people, business, system and data life cycles. The Guidebook is the
only security book to provide information on how to deal with
organizational issues by using power and influence effectively. It
talks about budgets and how to build a strong security program with
little budget, it talks about the hidden costs of security that
enterprises fail to acocunt for, and it describes the different ways
that risk management is done and when to apply them. According to Dr.
Cohen, "I saw a crying need for providing executives with the
information they need to make sound business decisions about what to
protect and how well. Business suffers when businesses spend too much
on security or spend it the wrong way."
The "Governance Guidebook" is organized at two levels of detail. It
starts with an executive overview of information protection that is
suitable for any executive in any company of any size. Then it drills
down into two levels of depth, providing knowledge on the structure of
a protection program, awareness options, legal and HR interfaces,
policy standards and procedures, audit, incident handling, and other
orgnaizational perspectives. It even talks about how to model a
business so that information protection makes clear business sense and
the program aims at the right targets. And it does this in a straight
forward and direct style without wasting time or effort on flowery
language or hyperbole. Dr. Cohen adds, "Vendors sell tools, but if you
don't know which ones to buy or how to use them, they just cost a lot
of money and don't solve business problems. This book helps executives
make sound business decisions about security and cuts through the
hype. The 'Governance Guidebook' is a must read for anyone making
business decisions about security issues."
Released October of 2005, information security "Governance Guidebook"
(ISBN #1-878109-34-0) is available online at Amazon.com, through your
local bookseller, or at http://all.net/ For interviews or additional
details contact Dr. Cohen directly.
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