E-Books →The Security Risk Assessment Handbook A Complete Guide for Performing Security Risk Assessments, 3rd Edition

English | 2021 | ISBN: 103204165X | 515 pages | True PDF | 29.34 MB
Conducted properly, information security risk assessments provide managers with the feedback needed to understand threats to corporate assets, determine vulnerabilities of current controls, and select appropriate safeguards. Performed incorrectly, they can provide the false sense of security that allows potential threats to develop into disastrous losses of proprietary information, capital, and corporate value. Picking up where its bestselling predecessors left off, The Security Risk Assessment Handbook: A Complete Guide for Performing Security Risk Assessments, Third Edition gives you detailed instruction on how to conduct a risk assessment effectively and efficiently. Supplying wide-ranging coverage that includes security risk analysis, mitigation, and risk assessment reporting.
The third edition has expended coverage essential topics such as threat analysis, data gathering, risk analysis, and risk assessment methods and added coverage of new topics essential for current assessment projects (e.g., cloud security, supply chain management, security risk assessment methods). This edition includes detailed guidance on gathering data and analyzing over 200 administrative, technical, and physical controls using the RIIOT data gathering method; introduces the RIIOT FRAME (risk assessment method), includes hundreds of tables, over 70 new diagrams and figures, over 80 exercises, and provides a detailed analysis of many of the popular security risk assessment methods in use today. The companion website (infosecurityrisk.com) provides downloads for checklists, spreadsheets, figures, and tools. The security risk assessment handbook walks you through the process of conducting an effective security assessment, it provides the tools, methods, and up-to-date understanding you need to select the security measures best suited to your organization.