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

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

by Alan Calder (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

The legal obligations placed upon businesses as part of governance requirements makes this essential reading for all businesses, large or small, simple or complex, on and off-line. This is a non-technical and up-to-date explanation of the vital issues facing all companies in an area increasingly noted for the high degrees of unofficial hype alongside government regulation and will be welcomed by those seeking to secure their businesses in the face of sustained threats to their assets and in particular, in relation to their data security. Full of practical and straightforward advice, key areas covered include handling the internet, e-commerce, wireless information systems and the legal and regulatory frameworks.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Kogan Page
Published: 03 Oct 2005
ISBN 10: 0749443952
ISBN 13: 9780749443955
Book Overview: Information security is bounded by regulation on one hand and hype on the other; this book, written in plain English, explains how to understand and deal with both in the most cost-effective and practical fashion.

Media Reviews
In this clearly argued and thorough guide, he takes the busy reader through a powerful checklist of simple but necessary steps that will help protect your business. Stefan Stern in Accounting and Business Magazine Nontechnical, simple, and straightforward, this handbook offers valuable advice to help managers protect their companies from malicious and criminal IT activity. Advance Magazine Explains to directors and managers the key issues to be addressed in dealing with data and helps them to take control of a subject that is critical to their survival. ISSG Magazine An ideal starting point for those who are looking for a broad picture of compliance regulation. Risk UK Magazine Easy explanations and strategies to strengthen a company's data holdings. Midwestbookreview.com Using a number of national and international standards as a base, the author provides a series of checklists for the non-IT person to understand the issues. Professional Manager Explains to directors and managers the vital issues...And helps them to take control of a subject that is critical to their survival. European Foundation for Management Development Explores ways to arm nontechnical business executives and computer users everywhere with the basic information they need to ensure that they and their business stay safe online. Journal of Economic Literature
Author Bio
Alan Calder, founder director of IT Governance Ltd, led one of the very first organizations ever 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 has previously written IT Governance which is due to appear in it's 3rd Edition in June 2005, and Corporate Governance, which is published in the autumn.