The Business Case for Network Security

Advocacy, Governance, and ROI

Catherine Paquet, Warren Saxe - Collection Network business series

382 pages, parution le 24/01/2005

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Résumé

Understand the total cost of ownership and return on investment for network security solutions

Understand what motivates hackers and how to classify threats
Learn how to recognize common vulnerabilities and common types of attacks
Examine modern day security systems, devices, and mitigation techniques
Integrate policies and personnel with security equipment to effectively lessen security risks
Analyze the greater implications of security breaches facing corporations and executives today
Understand the governance aspects of network security to help implement a climate of change throughout your organization
Learn how to qualify your organization's aversion to risk
Quantify the hard costs of attacks versus the cost of security technology investment to determine ROI
Learn the essential elements of security policy development and how to continually assess security needs and vulnerabilities

The Business Case for Network Security: Advocacy, Governance, and ROI addresses the needs of networking professionals and business executives who seek to assess their organization's risks and objectively quantify both costs and cost savings related to network security technology investments. This book covers the latest topics in network attacks and security. It includes a detailed security-minded examination of return on investment (ROI) and associated financial methodologies that yield both objective and subjective data. The book also introduces and explores the concept of return on prevention (ROP) and discusses the greater implications currently facing corporations, including governance and the fundamental importance of security, for senior executives and the board.

Making technical issues accessible, this book presents an overview of security technologies that uses a holistic and objective model to quantify issues such as ROI, total cost of ownership (TCO), and risk tolerance. This book explores capital expenditures and fixed and variable costs, such as maintenance and upgrades, to determine a realistic TCO figure, which in turn is used as the foundation in calculating ROI. The importance of security policies addressing such issues as Internet usage, remote-access usage, and incident reporting is also discussed, acknowledging that the most comprehensive security equipment will not protect an organization if it is poorly configured, implemented, or used. Quick reference sheets and worksheets, included in the appendixes, provide technology reviews and allow financial modeling exercises to be performed easily.

An essential IT security-investing tool written from a business management perspective, The Business Case for Network Security: Advocacy, Governance, and ROI helps you determine the effective ROP for your business.

This volume is in the Network Business Series offered by Cisco Press. Books in this series provide IT executives, decision makers, and networking professionals with pertinent information about today's most important technologies and business strategies.

L'auteur - Catherine Paquet

CCNP, is the Director of Technical Resources for Global Knowledge-Canada. Catherine is a Certified Cisco Systems Instructor and has an MBA with a major in Management Information Systems. She has in-depth knowledge of routing technologies and access services. Catherine was also a member of the Cisco Systems team that developed the Building Scalable Cisco Networks (BSCN) instructor-led course.

L'auteur - Warren Saxe

Warren Saxe has an extensive background in profit and loss (P&L) management as general manager for a Fortune 1000 semiconductor distributor. As a top- and bottom-line-focused senior manager, he brings a unique perspective to this business decision maker–oriented book. He is currently focusing in the areas of security governance, risk management, and return on security investment planning.

Sommaire

Vulnerabilities and Technologies
- Hackers and Threats
- Crucial Need for Security: Vulnerabilities and Attacks
- Security Technology and Related Equipment
- Putting It All Together: Threats and Security Equipment
Human and financial issues
- Policy, Personnel, and Equipment as Security Enablers
- A Matter of Governance: Taking Security to the Board
- Creating Demand for the Security Proposal: IT Management's Role
- Risk Aversion and Security Topologies
- Return on Prevention: Investing in Capital Assets
Policies and Future
- Essential Elements of Security Policy Development
- Security Is a Living Process
Appendixes
- Appendix A. References
- Appendix B. OSI Model, Internet Protocol, and Packets
- Appendix C. Quick Guides to Security Technologies
- Appendix D. Return on Prevention Calculations Reference Sheets

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cisco Press
Auteur(s)	Catherine Paquet, Warren Saxe
Collection	Network business series
Parution	24/01/2005
Nb. de pages	382
Format	17,5 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	640g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781587201219
ISBN13	978-1-58720-121-9