Metrics and methods for security risk management /

Metrics and methods for security risk management /

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Author / Creator:Young, Carl S.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Boston : Syngress/Elsevier, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (xx, 272 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Risk management.
Security systems -- Evaluation.
Risk management
Security systems -- Evaluation
Electronic book.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13598028
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ISBN:9781856179782
1856179788
9781856179799
1856179796
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Metrics and Methods for Security Risk Management offers powerful analytic tools that have been absent from traditional security texts. This easy-to-read text provides a handy compendium of scientific principles that affect security threats, and establishes quantitative security metrics that facilitate the development of effective security solutions. Most importantly, this book applies these foundational concepts to information protection, electromagnetic pulse, biological, chemical and radiological weapons, theft, and explosive threats. In addition, this book offers a practical framework for assessing security threats as well as a step-by-step prescription for a systematic risk mitigation process that naturally leads to a flexible model for security standards and audits. This process helps ensure consistency and coherence in mitigating risk as well as in managing complex and/or global security programs. This book promises to be the standard reference in the field and should be in the library of every serious security professional. * Offers an integrated approach to assessing security risk * Addresses homeland security as well as IT and physical security issues * Describes vital safeguards for ensuring true business continuity.
Other form:Print version: Young, Carl S. Metrics and methods for security risk management. Amsterdam ; Boston : Syngress/Elsevier, ©2010 9781856179782 1856179788
Standard no.:C20090618857
9781856179782
Table of Contents:
  • About the Author
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. The Structure of Security Risk
  • Chapter 1. Security Threats and Risk
  • 1.1. Introduction to Security Risk or Tales of the Psychotic Squirrel and the Sociable Shark
  • 1.2. The Fundamental Expression of Security Risk
  • 1.3. Introduction to Security Risk Models and Security Risk Mitigation
  • 1.4. Summary
  • Chapter 2. The Fundamentals of Security Risk Measurements
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Linearity and Non-linearity
  • 2.3. Exponents, Logarithms and Sensitivity to Change
  • 2.4. The Exponential Function e x
  • 2.5. The Decibel (dB)
  • 2.6. Security Risk and the Concept of Scale
  • 2.7. Some Common Physical Models in Security Risk
  • 2.8. Visualizing Security Risk
  • 2.9. An Example: Guarding Costs
  • 2.10. Summary
  • Chapter 3. Risk Measurements and Security Programs
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. The Security Risk Assessment Process
  • 3.2.1. Unique Threats
  • 3.2.2. Motivating Security Risk Mitigation: The Five Commandments of Corporate Security
  • 3.2.3. Security Risk Models
  • 3.3. Managing Security Risk
  • 3.3.1. The Security Risk Mitigation Process
  • 3.3.2. Security Risk Standards
  • 3.4. Security Risk Audits
  • 3.5. Security Risk Program Frameworks
  • 3.6. Summary
  • Part II. Measuring and Mitigating Security Risk
  • Chapter 4. Measuring the Likelihood Component of Security Risk
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Likelihood or Potential for Risk?
  • 4.3. Estimating the Likelihood of Randomly Occurring Security Incidents
  • 4.4. Estimating The Potential for Biased Security Incidents
  • 4.5. Averages and Deviations
  • 4.6. Actuarial Approaches to Security Risk
  • 4.7. Randomness, Loss, and Expectation Value
  • 4.8. Financial Risk
  • 4.9. Summary
  • Chapter 5. Measuring the Vulnerability Component of Security Risk
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Vulnerability to Information Loss through Unauthorized Signal Detection
  • 5.2.1. Energy, Waves and Information
  • 5.2.2. Introduction to Acoustic Energy and Audible Information
  • 5.2.3. Transmission of Audible Information and Vulnerability to Conversation-Level Overhears
  • 5.2.4. Audible Information and the Effects of Intervening Structures
  • 5.2.5. Introduction to Electromagnetic Energy and Vulnerability to Signal Detection
  • 5.2.6. Electromagnetic Energy and the Effects of Intervening Structures
  • 5.2.7. Vulnerability to Information Loss through Unauthorized Signal Detection: A Checklist
  • 5.3. Vulnerability to Explosive Threats
  • 5.3.1. Explosive Parameters
  • 5.3.2. Confidence Limits and Explosive Vulnerability
  • 5.4. A Theory of Vulnerability to Computer Network Infections
  • 5.5. Biological, Chemical and Radiological Weapons
  • 5.5.1. Introduction
  • 5.5.2. Vulnerability to Radiological Dispersion Devices
  • 5.5.3. Vulnerability to Biological Threats
  • 5.5.4. Vulnerability to External Contaminants; Bypassing Building Filtration
  • 5.5.5. Vulnerability to Chemical Threats
  • 5.6. The Visual Compromise of Information
  • 5.7. Summary
  • Chapter 6. Mitigating Security Risk: Reducing Vulnerability
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Audible Signals
  • 6.2.1. Acoustic Barriers
  • 6.2.2. Sound Reflection
  • 6.2.3. Sound Absorption
  • 6.3. Electromagnetic Signals
  • 6.3.1. Electromagnetic Shielding
  • 6.3.2. Intra-Building Electromagnetic Signal Propagation
  • 6.3.3. Intra-Building Electromagnetic Signal Propagation
  • 6.3.4. Non-Point Source Electromagnetic Radiation
  • 6.4. Vehicle-borne Explosive Threats: Barriers and Bollards
  • 6.5. Explosive Threats
  • 6.6. Radiological Threats
  • 6.7. Biological Threats
  • 6.7.1. Particulate Filtering
  • 6.7.2. Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI)
  • 6.7.3. Combining UVGI with Particulate Filtering
  • 6.7.4. More Risk Mitigation for Biological Threats
  • 6.7.5. Relative Effectiveness of Influenza Mitigation
  • 6.8. Mitigating the Risk of Chemical Threats (briefly noted)
  • 6.9. Guidelines on Reducing the Vulnerability to Non-Traditional Threats in Commercial Facilities
  • 6.10. Commercial Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM)
  • 6.11. Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Weapons
  • 6.12. Summary
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A.
  • Appendix B.
  • Appendix C.
  • Appendix D.
  • Appendix E.
  • Appendix F.
  • Appendix G.
  • Appendix H.
  • Index

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