Information Security: Policy, Processes, and Practices [Hardcover]

Information security is everyone's concern. The way we live is underwritten by information system infrastructures, most notably the Internet. The functioning of our business organizations, the management of our supply chains, and the operation of our governments depend on the secure flow of information. In an organizational environment information security is a never-ending process of protecting information and the systems that produce it.This volume in the Advances in Management Information Systems series covers the managerial landscape of information security. It deals with how organizations and nations organize their information security policies and efforts. The book covers how to strategize and implement security with a special focus on emerging technologies. It highlights the wealth of security technologies, and also indicates that the problem is not a lack of technology but rather its intelligent application.Information security is everyone's concern. The functioning of our business organizations, the management of our supply chains, and the operation of our governments depend on the secure flow of information. This volume covers the managerial landscape of information security and deals with how organizations organize their security policies.Series Editor's Introduction Part I. The Terrain of Information Security 1. Framing the Information Security Process in Modem Society Part II. Security Processes for Organizational Information Systems 2. Information Systems Security Strategy: A Process View 3. IT Governance and Organizational Design for Security Management 4. Information System Risk Assessment and Documentation 5. Strategic Information Security Risk Management 6. Security Policy: From Design to Maintenance 7. Business Continuity Planning and the Protection of Informational Assets Part III. Processes for Securing the Extra-Organizational Setting 8. Information Security Policy in the U.S. National Context 9. The International Landscape of Cyber Security l6