A Business Guide to Information Security: How to Protect Your Company's IT Assets, Reduce Risks and Understand the Law - Softcover

Calder, Alan

9780749443955: A Business Guide to Information Security: How to Protect Your Company's IT Assets, Reduce Risks and Understand the Law

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749443952 ISBN 13: 9780749443955

Publisher: Kogan Page Business Books, 2006

* Vital reading for all those concerned with protecting their companies from malicious and criminal activity, department managers to CXOs and risk managers

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About the Author:

Alan Calder founder director of IT Governance Ltd, led one of the very first organizations ever to achieve BS7799. His 30 year international management career, at CEO and Director level in both the private and public sectors, has increasingly focused on the challenge of making information security as simple and as natural as household security. He has previously written IT Governance now in its 3rd edition, and Corporate Governance, which will be published in 2006.

Review:

"In this clearly argued and thorough guide, he takes the busy reader through a powerful checklist of simple but necessary steps that will help protect your business." Stefan Stern in Accounting and Business Magazine "Nontechnical, simple, and straightforward, this handbook offers valuable advice to help managers protect their companies from malicious and criminal IT activity." Advance Magazine "Explains to directors and managers the key issues to be addressed in dealing with data and helps them to take control of a subject that is critical to their survival." ISSG Magazine "An ideal starting point for those who are looking for a broad picture of compliance regulation." Risk UK Magazine "Easy explanations and strategies to strengthen a company's data holdings." Midwestbookreview.com "Using a number of national and international standards as a base, the author provides a series of checklists for the non-IT person to understand the issues." Professional Manager "Explains to directors and managers the vital issues...And helps them to take control of a subject that is critical to their survival." European Foundation for Management Development "Explores ways to arm nontechnical business executives and computer users everywhere with the basic information they need to ensure that they and their business stay safe online." Journal of Economic Literature

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