Risk Analysis and the Security Survey

by Broder, James F; Tucker, Eugene

• ISBN13: 9780123822338
• ISBN10: 0123822335
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780123822338, 9780123822345
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780750679220
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-06
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
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Summary

As there is a need for careful analysis in a world where threats are growing more complex and serious, you need the tools to ensure that sensible methods are employed and correlated directly to risk. Counter threats such as terrorism, fraud, natural disasters, and information theft with the Fourth Edition of Risk Analysis and the Security Survey.  Broder and Tucker guide you through analysis to implementation to provide you with the know-how to implement rigorous, accurate, and cost-effective security policies and designs. This book builds on the legacy of its predacessors by updating and covering new content.  Understand the most fundamental theories surrounding risk control, design, and implementation by reviewing topics such as cost/benefit analysis, crime prediction, response planning, and business impact analysis--all updated to match today's current standards. This book will show you how to develop and maintain current business contigency and disaster recovery plans to ensure your enterprises are able to sustain loss are able to recover, and protect your assets, be it your business, your information, or yourself, from threats. *Offers powerful techniques for weighing and managing the risks that face your organization *Gives insights into universal principles that can be adapted to specific situations and threats *Covers topics needed by homeland security professionals as well as IT and physical security managers

Table of Contents

The Treatment and Analysis of Risk

Risk

Vulnerability and Threat Identification

Risk Measurement

Quantifying and Prioritizing Loss Potential

Cost/Benefit Analysis

Other Risk Analysis Methodologies

The Security Survey: An Overview

Management Audit Techniques and the Preliminary Survey

The Survey Report

Crime Prediction

Determining Insurance Requirements

Emergency Managment and Business Continuity Planning

Emergency Management: A Brief Introduction

Mitigation and Preparedness

Response Planning

Business Impact Analysis

Business Continuity Planning

Plan Documentation

Crisis Management Planning for Kidnap, Ransom, and Extortion

Monitoring Safeguards

The Security Consultant

Security Survey Work Sheets

Sample Kidnap and Ransom Contingency Plan

Security Systems Specifications

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