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Book Reviews: Risk Management

Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance: It Can’t Happen to Us—Avoiding Corporate Disaster While Driving Success

02/19/2013 - Although its intended audience is primarily senior corporate executives and board members, this book also makes an excellent how-to manual for any security manager.
Book Reviews: Privacy

The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance

02/19/2013 - This academic work frames the problem of excessive surveillance and describes threats to privacy.
Book Reviews: Risk Management

Risk Analysis and the Security Survey, Fourth Edition

12/19/2012 - Written in two parts, the book takes the reader beyond merely conducting the risk analysis in part one to what happens should preparedness fail.
Book Reviews: Terrorism

Terrorist Financing, Money Laundering, and Tax Evasion

12/19/2012 - This book covers a crucial element in the worldwide battle against terror and provides an academic viewpoint of many of the issues surrounding the ability to quantitatively measure the performance of financial intelligence units.
Book Reviews: Financial Markets

Digging for Disclosure: Tactics for Protecting Your Firm’s Assets from Swindlers, Scammers, and Imposters

12/19/2012 - The authors have written a most interesting and useful book with a fresh look at an old problem.
Book Reviews: Cybercrime

Cyber Warfare: Techniques, Tactics, and Tools for Security Practitioners

12/18/2012 - Apparently aimed at a military audience, this book offers concepts and examples largely from the U.S. military.
Book Reviews: Terrorism

Eco-Warriors, Nihilistic Terrorists and the Environment

12/18/2012 - All in all, this book has some merits. It gives a comprehensive view of the current status of terrorism and presents some stimulating thoughts and ideas.
Book Reviews: IT Security

Thor’s Microsoft Security Bible

11/30/2012 - This book presents a fascinating collection of practical and immediately implementable Microsoft security techniques, processes, and meth­odologies uniquely illustrated through real-world process examples.
Book Reviews: Hiring \ Employment Issues

Liars & Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive

11/30/2012 - Without a broad base of trust, society and all of our institutions would fail to function. This is the focus of Bruce Schneier’s new­est book, Liars & Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive.
Book Reviews: IT Security

Smart Grid Security: An End-to-End View of Security in the New Electrical Grid

11/26/2012 - Reviewer: For those looking to get a handle on how to secure the evolving and dynamic smart grid, Smart Grid Security: An End-to-End View of Security in the New Electrical Grid is an excellent reference.
Book Reviews: Access Control

Electronic Access Control

11/26/2012 - This book is likely one of the most current and comprehensive works available in this subject area, says reviewer Paul D. Barnard, CPP, CISM, SFPC.
Book Reviews: How-to

How to Do Financial Asset Investigations

11/26/2012 - An overall theme in the book is to obey the law when conducting investigations. It is critical that investigators be aware of the specifics of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act as well as other state and federal laws.
Book Reviews: IT Security

ISO27001 in a Windows Environment

09/27/2012 - Anyone who will be using ISO27001 in a Windows environment and wants to make its implementation easier should certainly have this reference at their side.
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