Risk Assessment for Asset Owners - Softcover

Alan Calder; Steve Watkins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905356269 ISBN 13: 9781905356263

Publisher: IT Governance Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

All organizations face risks to information and information assets. Many organizations seek to identify and control those risks, usually as part of a structured approach to information security risk management. Risk assessment is at the heart of risk management, and the two together form the core competences of information security management. ISO27001 specifies a series of steps that must form part of the risk assessment. While a number of people in the organization will have a role to play in respect of risk assessment, these steps include a specific role for what the standard describes as asset owners . This book is a pocket guide to the ISO27001 risk assessment, and designed to assist asset owners and others who are working within an ISO27001/ISO17799 framework to deliver a qualitative risk assessment. It conforms with the guidance provided in BS7799-3:2006 and NIST SP 800-30.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan Calder is the founder director of IT Governance Ltd, an information, advice and consultancy firm that helps companies tackle governance, risk management, compliance and information security issues. He has many years of senior management and board-level experience in the private and public sectors. The company's website is a 'one-stop-shop' for information, books, tools, training and consultancy on governance, risk management, compliance and information security. Steve Watkins leads the consultancy and training services of IT Governance Ltd. In his various roles in both the public and private sectors he has been responsible for most support disciplines. He has over 17 years' experience of managing integrated management systems, including maintenance of Information Security, Quality, Environmental and Investor in People certifications. As well as being a trained ISO27001 and ISO9000 auditor Steve is a trained EFQM Assessor and holds diplomas in safety and financial management. He is Deputy Chair of the Steering Committee of the DTi ISO/IEC17799 Users Group and also sits on the Management Committee of the British Standards Society where he chairs the Management Systems Special Interest Group.

About this edition

• Publisher: IT Governance Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1905356269
• ISBN 13: 9781905356263
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48