Information Security for Managers

Information systems have improved over the years to become more effective in collecting and rendering information for consumers, although these improvements have been accompanied by increases in both frequency and sophistication of attacks against them. The impacts from attacks against companies are significant, and managers are responsible for their organizations' security. Failures can cause significant losses to companies and their suppliers and clients, and may cost managers their jobs, and may even possibly lead to legal liabilities that are adjudicated against them. This textbook takes a different approach than most texts on the subject, which are organized topically. Pedagogically, Information Security for Managers utilizes an incremental development method called knowledge scaffolding -a proven educational technique for learning subject matter thoroughly by reinforced learning through an elaborative rehearsal process. This new resource includes coverage on threats to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as well as countermeasures to preserve these. The textbook also draws extensively from the latest applied research and development, rather than simply rehashing materials and topics that are in nearly all of the extant textbooks and popular reading materials. Instructor Resources include Answers to the end-of-chapter questions and a PowerPoint Image Bank that contains key images from the text.
Utilizing an incremental development method called knowledge scaffolding--a proven educational technique for learning subject matter thoroughly by reinforced learning through an elaborative rehearsal process--this new resource includes coverage on threats to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as well as countermeasures to preserve these.
Michael Workman is a professor at the Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech) and director of the Security Policy Institute. Prior to Florida Tech, Dr. Workman was a professor of information systems at Florida State University. He has published over 60 research manuscripts and three books. Professionally, he has worked as Chief Technology Officer for NETCommerce, Senior Vice President at Bank of America where he was in charge of network applications, Director of network and systems security at France Telecom, and he has held positions in management at Alltel, Openware, Unisys, and Digital Equipment Corporation. He began his professional career as a UNIX operating system software engineer. Dr. Workman earned his Ph.D. from Georgia State University, Atlanta.
Dan Phelps is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. Previously, he was a Member of the Technical Staff and Information Scientist with CMU's Software Engineering Institute/CERT both in Pittsburgh and in Qatar as well as a faculty member in the College of Information, Florida State University in Panama City, FL. His graduate work in Information Studies was done at Florida State University, in Computer Science at James Madison University, and in Information Systems at the Naval Postgraduate School.
School of Information and School of Mass Communications, University of South Florida