1st Edition

Responsive Security Be Ready to Be Secure

By Meng-Chow Kang Copyright 2014
260 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

260 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

259 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Responsive Security: Be Ready to Be Secure explores the challenges, issues, and dilemmas of managing information security risk, and introduces an approach for addressing concerns from both a practitioner and organizational management standpoint. Utilizing a research study generated from nearly a decade of action research and real-time experience, this book introduces the issues and dilemmas... Read more

Introduction
Background and Motivations
Purpose
Questions
Research Methodology
Organization of Subsequent Chapters
Endnotes

Knowledge, Issues, and Dilemmas
Introduction
Information Security
Principles and Approaches
Information Security Risk Management Strategy
Information Security Program
Responding to Change
Current Research and Social Perspectives
Conclusion
Endnotes

Practice, Issues, and Dilemmas
Information Risk Management (IRM) Practices
Social–Technical Approach
Endnotes

Responsive Security
Piezoelectric Metaphor
BETA’s Approach to Emerging Risks and Attacks
Learning from Tsunami Incident
Revealing Uncertainties and Making Risks Visible
Responsive, Reactive, and Proactive Strategies

Criticality Alignment

Testing Responsive Approach at GAMMA

Learning from Antinny Worm Case Study

Refining Responsive Approach

Responsive Learning

Endnotes

Conclusions and Implications

Summary and Results

Conclusions about Each Research Question

Implications for Theory

Implications for Policy and Practice

Suggestions for Further Research

Endnotes

Appendices

References

Index

Biography

Meng-Chow Kang, PhD, earned an MSc in information security from the Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, and completed his PhD program in information security risk management at the Southern Cross University in Australia. He co-founded the Regional Asia Information Security Exchange (RAISE) Forum (raiseforum.org) that serves as a platform for regional information sharing and contributes to international standards development in ISO and ITU-T. He has been contributing to the development and adoption of international standards relating to information security since 1998, served as the first chair for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27/WG 4 on Security Controls and Services Standards development from 2006 to 2012, and his work has been recognized with numerous industry awards.