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

  • 3h 38m
  • Alan Calder
  • Kogan Page
  • 2005

In the information economy, data has huge value – to individuals, businesses and villains alike. All organizations are threatened and vulnerable. A Business Guide to Information Security explains to directors and managers the vital issues – from adware, hackers and phishing to spyware, viruses and zombies – facing organizations of every type and size, and helps them to take control of a subject that is critical to their survival. Full of clear, practical and straightforward advice, the author helps readers ensure that:

  • IT security is business-driven;
  • information security is cost-effective;
  • business data risks are managed;
  • legal and regulatory compliance is assured.

About the Author

Alan Calder, founder director of IT Governance Ltd, led one of the first organizations 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 is the author of IT Governance and Corporate Governance (both published by Kogan Page).

In this Book

  • Threats and Compliance
  • Simply Essential
  • The SOHO Internet Highway Code
  • The Infosec Basics for Business
  • Essentials for Smaller Organizations
  • Essentials for Larger Organizations
  • Essentials for Wireless Networking
  • Essentials for E-Commerce
  • Legal and Regulatory Essentials