IT Security Management - IT Securiteers - Setting up an IT Security Function

IT securiteers - The human and technical dimension working for the organisation.
Current corporate governance regulations and international standards lead many organisations, big and small, to the creation of an information technology (IT) security function in their organisational chart or to the acquisition of services from the IT security industry.
More often than desired, these teams are only useful for companies' executives to tick the corresponding box in a certification process, be it ISO, ITIL, PCI, etc. Many IT security teams do not provide business value to their company. They fail to really protect the organisation from the increasing number of threats targeting its information systems.
IT Security Management provides an insight into how to create and grow a team of passionate IT security professionals. We will call them "securiteers". They will add value to the business, improving the information security stance of organisations.

List of contents

Vulnerabilities, Threats and Risks in IT.- Security and IT Background.- The Team-Individual Contract.- What to Do: The IT Security Roadmap.- How to Do It: Organise the Work in "Baby Steps".- Team Dynamics: Building a "Human System".- Viral Marketing.- Management Support: An Indispensable Ingredient.- Social Networking for IT Security Professionals.- Present, Future and Beauty of IT Security.

Summary

IT securiteers - The human and technical dimension working for the organisation.

Current corporate governance regulations and international standards lead many organisations, big and small, to the creation of an information technology (IT) security function in their organisational chart or to the acquisition of services from the IT security industry.

More often than desired, these teams are only useful for companies’ executives to tick the corresponding box in a certification process, be it ISO, ITIL, PCI, etc. Many IT security teams do not provide business value to their company. They fail to really protect the organisation from the increasing number of threats targeting its information systems.

IT Security Management provides an insight into how to create and grow a team of passionate IT security professionals. We will call them “securiteers”. They will add value to the business, improving the information security stance of organisations.

Product details

• Authors: Diego Andina, Albert Partida, Alberto Partida
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.08.2012
• EAN: 9789400732629
• ISBN: 978-94-0-073262-9
• No. of pages: 247
• Weight: 435 g
• Illustrations: XXXV, 247 p.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering; Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; C, computer science, engineering, Computer Science, general, Electrical Engineering, Systems and Data Security, Data and Information Security, Theory of Computation, Management of Computing and Information Systems, IT Operations, Computer Communication Networks, Communications Engineering, Networks, Computers, Maintenance & repairs, information architecture, Network Security, Computer security, Management information systems, Mathematical theory of computation, Communications engineering / telecommunications, Computer communication systems