Information Security Risk Assessment Toolkit

Information Security Risk Assessment Toolkit: Practical Assessments through Data Collection and Data Analysis

In order to protect company’s information assets such as sensitive customer records, health care records, etc., the security practitioner first needs to find out: what needs protected, what risks those assets are exposed to, what controls are in place to offset those risks, and where to focus attention for risk treatment. This is the true value and purpose of information security risk assessments.  Effective risk assessments are meant to provide a defendable analysis of residual risk associated with your key assets so that risk treatment options can be explored.  Information Security Risk Assessments gives you the tools and skills to get a quick, reliable, and thorough risk assessment for key stakeholders.

• Based on authors’ experiences of real-world assessments, reports, and presentations
• Focuses on implementing a process, rather than theory, that allows you to derive a quick and valuable assessment
• Includes a companion web site with spreadsheets you can utilize to create and maintain the risk assessment

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

This book was given to me as a gift from a good friend a couple months ago. I have been a network security practitioner for 12 years and I found this book very informative. This book covers process and analysis techniques that can be use to find risks beyond intrusion detection system. Overall, this book is a must have book for beginners or any security practitioner.