Download or read book Risk Analysis and Security Countermeasure Selection written by CPP/PSP/CSC, Thomas L. Norman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When properly conducted, risk analysis enlightens, informs, and illuminates, helping management organize their thinking into properly prioritized, cost-effective action. Poor analysis, on the other hand, usually results in vague programs with no clear direction and no metrics for measurement. Although there is plenty of information on risk analysis

Download or read book Risk Assessment and Countermeasures for Cybersecurity written by Almaiah, Mohammed Amin and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relentless growth of cyber threats poses an escalating challenge to our global community. The current landscape of cyber threats demands a proactive approach to cybersecurity, as the consequences of lapses in digital defense reverberate across industries and societies. From data breaches to sophisticated malware attacks, the vulnerabilities in our interconnected systems are glaring. As we stand at the precipice of a digital revolution, the need for a comprehensive understanding of cybersecurity risks and effective countermeasures has never been more pressing. Risk Assessment and Countermeasures for Cybersecurity is a book that clarifies many of these challenges in the realm of cybersecurity. It systematically navigates the web of security challenges, addressing issues that range from cybersecurity risk assessment to the deployment of the latest security countermeasures. As it confronts the threats lurking in the digital shadows, this book stands as a catalyst for change, encouraging academic scholars, researchers, and cybersecurity professionals to collectively fortify the foundations of our digital world.

Download or read book Risk Analysis and Security Countermeasure Selection written by Thomas L. Norman CPP/PSP/CSC and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Risk Analysis and Security Countermeasure Selection presents updated case studies and introduces existing and new methodologies and technologies for addressing existing and future threats. It covers risk analysis methodologies approved by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and shows how to apply them to other organizations

Download or read book Managing Cybersecurity in the Process Industries written by CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety) and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chemical process industry is a rich target for cyber attackers who are intent on causing harm. Current risk management techniques are based on the premise that events are initiated by a single failure and the succeeding sequence of events is predictable. A cyberattack on the Safety, Controls, Alarms, and Interlocks (SCAI) undermines this basic assumption. Each facility should have a Cybersecurity Policy, Implementation Plan and Threat Response Plan in place. The response plan should address how to bring the process to a safe state when controls and safety systems are compromised. The emergency response plan should be updated to reflect different actions that may be appropriate in a sabotage situation. IT professionals, even those working at chemical facilities are primarily focused on the risk to business systems. This book contains guidelines for companies on how to improve their process safety performance by applying Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS) concepts and techniques to the problem of cybersecurity.

Download or read book Risk Centric Threat Modeling written by Tony UcedaVelez and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the Process for Attack Simulation & Threat Analysis (PASTA) threat modeling methodology. It provides an introduction to various types of application threat modeling and introduces a risk-centric methodology aimed at applying security countermeasures that are commensurate to the possible impact that could be sustained from defined threat models, vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and attack patterns. This book describes how to apply application threat modeling as an advanced preventive form of security. The authors discuss the methodologies, tools, and case studies of successful application threat modeling techniques. Chapter 1 provides an overview of threat modeling, while Chapter 2 describes the objectives and benefits of threat modeling. Chapter 3 focuses on existing threat modeling approaches, and Chapter 4 discusses integrating threat modeling within the different types of Software Development Lifecycles (SDLCs). Threat modeling and risk management is the focus of Chapter 5. Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 examine Process for Attack Simulation and Threat Analysis (PASTA). Finally, Chapter 8 shows how to use the PASTA risk-centric threat modeling process to analyze the risks of specific threat agents targeting web applications. This chapter focuses specifically on the web application assets that include customer’s confidential data and business critical functionality that the web application provides. • Provides a detailed walkthrough of the PASTA methodology alongside software development activities, normally conducted via a standard SDLC process • Offers precise steps to take when combating threats to businesses • Examines real-life data breach incidents and lessons for risk management Risk Centric Threat Modeling: Process for Attack Simulation and Threat Analysis is a resource for software developers, architects, technical risk managers, and seasoned security professionals.

Download or read book Cyber Risk Management written by Atle Refsdal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a brief and general introduction to cybersecurity and cyber-risk assessment. Not limited to a specific approach or technique, its focus is highly pragmatic and is based on established international standards (including ISO 31000) as well as industrial best practices. It explains how cyber-risk assessment should be conducted, which techniques should be used when, what the typical challenges and problems are, and how they should be addressed. The content is divided into three parts. First, part I provides a conceptual introduction to the topic of risk management in general and to cybersecurity and cyber-risk management in particular. Next, part II presents the main stages of cyber-risk assessment from context establishment to risk treatment and acceptance, each illustrated by a running example. Finally, part III details four important challenges and how to reasonably deal with them in practice: risk measurement, risk scales, uncertainty, and low-frequency risks with high consequence. The target audience is mainly practitioners and students who are interested in the fundamentals and basic principles and techniques of security risk assessment, as well as lecturers seeking teaching material. The book provides an overview of the cyber-risk assessment process, the tasks involved, and how to complete them in practice.

Download or read book Risk Analysis and Security Countermeasure Selection Second Edition written by Thomas L. CPP/PSP/CSC Norman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Risk Analysis and Security Countermeasure Selection presents updated case studies and introduces existing and new methodologies and technologies for addressing existing and future threats. It covers risk analysis methodologies approved by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and shows how to apply them to other organizations, public and private. It also helps the reader understand which methodologies are best to use for a particular facility and demonstrates how to develop an efficient security system. Drawing on over 35 years of experience in the security industry, Thomas L. Norman provides a single, comprehensive reference manual for risk analysis, countermeasure selection, and security program development. The security industry has a number of practitioners and consultants who lack appropriate training in risk analysis and whose services sometimes suffer from conflicts of interest that waste organizations’ money and time. Norman seeks to fill the void in risk analysis training for those security consultants, thereby reducing organizations’ wasting of resources and potential vulnerability. This book helps you find ways to minimize cost and time spent in analyzing and countering security threats. Risk Analysis and Security Countermeasure Selection, Second Edition gives invaluable insight into the risk analysis process while showing how to use analyses to identify and create the most cost efficient countermeasures. It leads you from a basic to an advanced level of understanding of the risk analysis process. The case studies illustrate how to put each theory into practice, including how to choose and implement countermeasures and how to create budgets that allow you to prioritize assets according to their relative risk and select appropriate countermeasures according to their cost effectiveness.

Download or read book Financial Cybersecurity Risk Management written by Paul Rohmeyer and published by Apress. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand critical cybersecurity and risk perspectives, insights, and tools for the leaders of complex financial systems and markets. This book offers guidance for decision makers and helps establish a framework for communication between cyber leaders and front-line professionals. Information is provided to help in the analysis of cyber challenges and choosing between risk treatment options. Financial cybersecurity is a complex, systemic risk challenge that includes technological and operational elements. The interconnectedness of financial systems and markets creates dynamic, high-risk environments where organizational security is greatly impacted by the level of security effectiveness of partners, counterparties, and other external organizations. The result is a high-risk environment with a growing need for cooperation between enterprises that are otherwise direct competitors. There is a new normal of continuous attack pressures that produce unprecedented enterprise threats that must be met with an array of countermeasures. Financial Cybersecurity Risk Management explores a range of cybersecurity topics impacting financial enterprises. This includes the threat and vulnerability landscape confronting the financial sector, risk assessment practices and methodologies, and cybersecurity data analytics. Governance perspectives, including executive and board considerations, are analyzed as are the appropriate control measures and executive risk reporting. What You’ll Learn Analyze the threat and vulnerability landscape confronting the financial sector Implement effective technology risk assessment practices and methodologies Craft strategies to treat observed risks in financial systemsImprove the effectiveness of enterprise cybersecurity capabilities Evaluate critical aspects of cybersecurity governance, including executive and board oversight Identify significant cybersecurity operational challenges Consider the impact of the cybersecurity mission across the enterpriseLeverage cybersecurity regulatory and industry standards to help manage financial services risksUse cybersecurity scenarios to measure systemic risks in financial systems environmentsApply key experiences from actual cybersecurity events to develop more robust cybersecurity architectures Who This Book Is For Decision makers, cyber leaders, and front-line professionals, including: chief risk officers, operational risk officers, chief information security officers, chief security officers, chief information officers, enterprise risk managers, cybersecurity operations directors, technology and cybersecurity risk analysts, cybersecurity architects and engineers, and compliance officers

Download or read book Analyzing Computer Security written by Charles P. Pfleeger and published by Prentice Hall Professional. This book was released on 2012 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the authors of the 20-year best-selling classic Security in Computing take a fresh, contemporary, and powerfully relevant new approach to introducing computer security. Organised around attacks and mitigations, the Pfleegers' new Analyzing Computer Security will attract students' attention by building on the high-profile security failures they may have already encountered in the popular media. Each section starts with an attack description. Next, the authors explain the vulnerabilities that have allowed this attack to occur. With this foundation in place, they systematically present today's most effective countermeasures for blocking or weakening the attack. One step at a time, students progress from attack/problem/harm to solution/protection/mitigation, building the powerful real-world problem solving skills they need to succeed as information security professionals. Analyzing Computer Security addresses crucial contemporary computer security themes throughout, including effective security management and risk analysis; economics and quantitative study; privacy, ethics, and laws; and the use of overlapping controls. The authors also present significant new material on computer forensics, insiders, human factors, and trust.

Download or read book Cyber Security Management written by Peter Trim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyber Security Management: A Governance, Risk and Compliance Framework by Peter Trim and Yang-Im Lee has been written for a wide audience. Derived from research, it places security management in a holistic context and outlines how the strategic marketing approach can be used to underpin cyber security in partnership arrangements. The book is unique because it integrates material that is of a highly specialized nature but which can be interpreted by those with a non-specialist background in the area. Indeed, those with a limited knowledge of cyber security will be able to develop a comprehensive understanding of the subject and will be guided into devising and implementing relevant policy, systems and procedures that make the organization better able to withstand the increasingly sophisticated forms of cyber attack. The book includes a sequence-of-events model; an organizational governance framework; a business continuity management planning framework; a multi-cultural communication model; a cyber security management model and strategic management framework; an integrated governance mechanism; an integrated resilience management model; an integrated management model and system; a communication risk management strategy; and recommendations for counteracting a range of cyber threats. Cyber Security Management: A Governance, Risk and Compliance Framework simplifies complex material and provides a multi-disciplinary perspective and an explanation and interpretation of how managers can manage cyber threats in a pro-active manner and work towards counteracting cyber threats both now and in the future.

Download or read book The Security Risk Assessment Handbook written by Douglas Landoll and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Security Risk Assessment Handbook: A Complete Guide for Performing Security Risk Assessments provides detailed insight into precisely how to conduct an information security risk assessment. Designed for security professionals and their customers who want a more in-depth understanding of the risk assessment process, this volume contains real-wor

Download or read book Security Risk Assessment written by Genserik Reniers and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the state-of-the-art of physical security knowledge and research in the chemical and process industries. Legislation differences between Europe and the USA are investigated, followed by an overview of the how, what and why of contemporary security risk assessment in this particular industrial sector. Innovative solutions such as attractiveness calculations and the use of game theory, advancing the present science of adversarial risk analysis, are discussed. The book further stands up for developing and employing dynamic security risk assessments, for instance based on Bayesian networks, and using OR methods to truly move security forward in the chemical and process industries.

Download or read book Cyber Risk Management written by Christopher J Hodson and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you manage the complex threats that can cause financial, operational and reputational damage to the business? This practical guide shows how to implement a successful cyber security programme. The second edition of Cyber Risk Management covers the latest developments in cyber security for those responsible for managing threat events, vulnerabilities and controls. These include the impact of Web3 and the metaverse on cyber security, supply-chain security in the gig economy and exploration of the global, macroeconomic conditions that affect strategies. It explains how COVID-19 and remote working changed the cybersecurity landscape. Cyber Risk Management presents a data-centric approach to cyber risk management based on business impact assessments, data classification, data flow modelling and assessing return on investment. It covers pressing developments in artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data and cloud mobility, and includes advice on dealing with malware, data leakage, insider threat and Denial-of-Service. With analysis on the innate human factors affecting cyber risk and awareness and the importance of communicating security effectively, this book is essential reading for all risk and cybersecurity professionals.

Download or read book COBIT 5 for Risk written by ISACA and published by ISACA. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information is a key resource for all enterprises. From the time information is created to the moment it is destroyed, technology plays a significant role in containing, distributing and analysing information. Technology is increasingly advanced and has become pervasive in enterprises and the social, public and business environments.

Download or read book Digital Age How to approach Cyber Security written by Andreas von Grebmer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Digital Age you need to find new approaches for Information and Cyber Security. This book describes the risk-based approach to transform information security considering the influences of the human factor. It is intended for people who want to protect the information of an organization in a holistic and comprehensive way. It is for those who want to try a different, new approach to protect their organizations.

Download or read book Security Management for Occupational Safety written by Michael Land and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would or should you go to feel secure? While everyone wants safety and security, the measures to achieve it are often viewed of as intrusive, unwanted, a hassle, and limiting to personal and professional freedoms. Yet, when an incident occurs, we can never have enough security. Security Management for Occupational Safety provides a framework through which occupational safety practitioners can critically examine their organizational environments and make them safer while assuming a best possible relationship between obtrusion and necessity. This book examines the diverse factors involved in occupational management—planning, people, budget, information, and preparedness—to present an accurately balanced picture of safety functions. It uses a critical thinking approach to interpreting data as a tool for providing more effective occupational safety management. The book discusses core security management competencies of planning, organizing, staffing, and leading while providing a process to critically analyze those functions. It stresses the benefits of using a methodical critical thinking process in building a comprehensive safety management system, addressing information security, cyber security, energy-sector security, chemical security, and general security management utilizing a critical thinking framework. The author doesn’t focus on how to secure, guard, or protect. While there are commonalities in many aspects of occupational risks and hazards, all are going to be unique. Instead, he guides you through each stage of critical thinking, emphasizing the ability to articulate the differing aspects of business and security management by reasoning through complex problems in the changing organizational landscape. The book not only provides fundamental concepts in security but it also creates informed, critical, and creative security managers who communicate effectively in their environment and make informed well-thought-out judgments to tailor a security program to fit a specific organization.

Download or read book Threat Assessment and Risk Analysis written by Greg Allen and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Threat Assessment and Risk Analysis: An Applied Approach details the entire risk analysis process in accessible language, providing the tools and insight needed to effectively analyze risk and secure facilities in a broad range of industries and organizations. The book explores physical vulnerabilities in such systems as transportation, distribution, and communications, and demonstrates how to measure the key risks and their consequences, providing cost-effective and achievable methods for evaluating the appropriate security risk mitigation countermeasures. Users will find a book that outlines the processes for identifying and assessing the most essential threats and risks an organization faces, along with information on how to address only those that justify security expenditures. Balancing the proper security measures versus the actual risks an organization faces is essential when it comes to protecting physical assets. However, determining which security controls are appropriate is often a subjective and complex matter. The book explores this process in an objective and achievable manner, and is a valuable resource for security and risk management executives, directors, and students.