Managing Risk: Technology And Communications - Softcover

Armstrong, Jonathan; Rhys-Jones, Mark; Dresner, Daniel

 
9780754524687: Managing Risk: Technology And Communications
Softcover
ISBN 10: 075452468X ISBN 13: 9780754524687
Verlag: Routledge, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Managing Risk: Technology and Communications is a practical guide to the effective management of technology and communications risks. Frequent high profile scares, like the Sasser worm and WiFi vulnerabilities, make a proactive approach essential and this book shows you how to put in place expedient checks, balances and countermeasures.Business networks are threatened by a host of factors, from employee abuse to non-compliance with data protection and libel laws, from hacker attacks to viruses and from extortion and terrorism to natural disaster.The costs of failing to manage systems risks can be immense and go beyond simple loss of productivity or even fraudulent losses to brand damage, theft of business secrets, expensive litigation, diminished customer confidence and adverse impacts on personnel and share value. This practical handbook includes examples, checklists and case studies to help you manage such hazards.The book covers:¿ accessibility of information;¿ acceptable use of information;¿ directors' legal duties;¿ general legal compliance;¿ protecting networks from external and internal threats;¿ encouraging security awareness at management and employee level;¿ reputational risk management; and¿ national and international risk and security standards.Managing Risk: Technology and Communications is the indispensable work of reference for IT and technology managers, HR managers, IT legal advisors, company secretaries and anyone seeking practical guidance on technology risks and their management.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jonathan ArmstrongEversheds LLPJonathan Armstrong is one of the UK's leading experts in technology law. A regular broadcaster on TV and radio, Jonathan's practice includes counselling multinational companies on a range of technology issues. As well as being a solicitor, he is a member of The Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Georgetown University Advanced Institute on Electronic Commerce, Washington DC. He has also been involved in developing a number of technology applications, including one of the first ten law firm sites in the UK.
Mark Rhys-JonesEversheds LLPMark Rhys-Jones is Chair of the Eversheds Technology Dispute Resolution practice. Mark is accustomed to acting for both suppliers and users in complex IT disputes and focuses on the identification and reduction of risk. He is also an accredited mediator and is identified in several legal directories as a leading individual in his field. He is Secretary of the Wales Commercial Law Association and a member of the Directors' Information Assurance Network.
Daniel DresnerThe National Computing CentreDaniel Dresner delivers the NCC's information systems risk management research programme. One of the UK's leading experts on standards implementation, Daniel contributes to IT standards nationally (including TickIT), across Europe (source code escrow) and through the International Standards Organisation (user documentation). He brought the NCC/DTI Towards Software Excellence scheme online and manages NCC's Security Knowledge Network. He is the technical authority for the NCC's assessment service for the e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF).

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Managing Risk: Technology and Communications is a practical guide to the effective management of technology and communications risks. Frequent high profile scares, like the Sasser worm and WiFi vulnerabilities, make a proactive approach essential and this book shows you how to put in place expedient checks, balances and countermeasures.


Business networks are threatened by a host of factors, from employee abuse to non-compliance with data protection and libel laws, from hacker attacks to viruses and from extortion and terrorism to natural disaster.

The costs of failing to manage systems risks can be immense and go beyond simple loss of productivity or even fraudulent losses to brand damage, theft of business secrets, expensive litigation, diminished customer confidence and adverse impacts on personnel and share value. This practical handbook includes examples, checklists and case studies to help you manage such hazards.

The book covers:
• accessibility of information;
• acceptable use of information;
• directors’ legal duties;
• general legal compliance;
• protecting networks from external and internal threats;
• encouraging security awareness at management and employee level;
• reputational risk management; and
• national and international risk and security standards.

Managing Risk: Technology and Communications is the indispensable work of reference for IT and technology managers, HR managers, IT legal advisors, company secretaries and anyone seeking practical guidance on technology risks and their management.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
075452468X
ISBN 13 
9780754524687
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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