The Executive Guide to Information Security

A Business-Focused Information Security Action Plan for Every Executive

Today, every executive must understand information security from a business perspective. Now, this concise book tells business leaders exactly what they need to know to make intelligent decisions about security-without ever getting lost in the technical complexities.

The Executive Guide to Information Security offers realistic, step-by-step recommendations for evaluating and improving information security in any enterprise. From start to finish, the focus is on action: what works and how to get it done. Here are just a few of the things you will be learning:

• Understanding your security challenges and obligations
• Trends in security attacks
• Systematically identifying your risks and vulnerabilities
• Implementing best-practice processes for access, acceptable use, training, strategy, and emergency response
• Effective executive leadership, governance, and metrics
• Staffing security-coping with a shortage of expertise

Whether you're a CxO, a line-of-business executive, or an IT executive who needs to get colleagues up to speed, this is the nontechnical, business-driven security briefing you've been searching for.