eBooks - Business - Management - Tom Olzak - Just Enough Security
Just Enough Security eBook
by Tom Olzak
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Windows 98SE+, Mac OS X+, Palm Features
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Just Enough Security Summary
| The Just Enough Security (JES) approach to information assurance is based on the belief that no one safeguard can completely protect your critical information assets from a highly motivated threat. The JES security model combines multiple layers of safeguards with simple risk management tools to help you achieve both the security of your information assets and a return on your security investment. To allow you to quickly apply the basic principles of JES, this book helps you build the necessary skills in three steps. Part 1 of this book contains three primers to ensure you have the basic technical knowledge necessary to understand each layer of the JES model. These primers include networking, security, and risk management. Part 2 introduces the various layers of the JES model with detailed explanations of how to implement each. Finally, business continuity and incident management principles are discussed in Part 3.INTRODUCTION If you're an experienced network engineer looking for detailed explanations on how to configure a router or firewall, this might not be the book for you. But if you're a business owner, business manager, or information systems manager interested in understanding how to develop, implement, and manage an effective security program, I encourage you to read on. The key difference that separates this from other books is my experience working as and with business managers to identify and deploy the right security for an organization. By "right security" I mean the application of reasonable and appropriate safeguards that actually result in a return on your security investment (ROSI). It seems that most of the literature on the application of security principles to protect information assets is directed at large enterprises with seemingly unlimited security budgets. So I decided to write this book to present an easy to understand security methodology that can be implemented without unreasonable implementation and management costs. I call this m... |
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