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Identifying the Essentials
CHAPTER OUTLINE
Beginning with the Basics: Ever Changing and Never Ending Studies in Human Behavior: An Essential Need for Security Outlining and Defining Security Creating and Maintaining a Stable and Predictable Environment Threats, Risk, and Vulnerabilities Introducing Essential Security Tools: Identifying Threats, Risks, and Vulnerabilities Threats and Related Risk Levels Identifying Vulnerabilities and Determining Countermeasures A Final, All-Important Term A Few Essential Elements Proactive versus Reactive Response Contract Officers versus Proprietary Officers Contract Outsourcing Decisions Conclusion Review Questions Discussion Questions
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CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS
Security basics: • The security objective is a neverending process. • Security needs change over time. Contributions from psychology: • Adler: Humans are, above all else, social. • Maslow and the hierarchy of needs: Security is a fundamental human need. Defining security: • stability • predictability Useful terms: • threat • risk: 1. probability 2. criticality • vulnerability Essential tools: • threat assessment • vulnerability assessment • security survey (security audit) • risk assessment • risk analysis
KEY WORDS
American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) Certified Protection Professional (CPP) Contingency plan Contract 64 Countermeasures Criticality Loss event Predictable environment Proactive
ISBN: 0-536-91271-8
Identifying and Exploring Security Essentials, by Mary Clifford. Published by Prentice-Hall. Copyright © 2004 by Pearson Education, Inc.
IDENTIFYING THE ESSENTIALS Probability Proprietary Reactive Risk Risk analysis Risk assessment Security audit Security survey Stable environment Threat Threat assessment Vulnerability Vulnerability assessment Vulnerability gap
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Everyone is interested in security issues at one point or another. In any local newspaper on any given day, a person will read stories that may affect how
Identifying the Essentials
CHAPTER OUTLINE
Beginning with the Basics: Ever Changing and Never Ending Studies in Human Behavior: An Essential Need for Security Outlining and Defining Security Creating and Maintaining a Stable and Predictable Environment Threats, Risk, and Vulnerabilities Introducing Essential Security Tools: Identifying Threats, Risks, and Vulnerabilities Threats and Related Risk Levels Identifying Vulnerabilities and Determining Countermeasures A Final, All-Important Term A Few Essential Elements Proactive versus Reactive Response Contract Officers versus Proprietary Officers Contract Outsourcing Decisions Conclusion Review Questions Discussion Questions
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CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS
Security basics: • The security objective is a neverending process. • Security needs change over time. Contributions from psychology: • Adler: Humans are, above all else, social. • Maslow and the hierarchy of needs: Security is a fundamental human need. Defining security: • stability • predictability Useful terms: • threat • risk: 1. probability 2. criticality • vulnerability Essential tools: • threat assessment • vulnerability assessment • security survey (security audit) • risk assessment • risk analysis
KEY WORDS
American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) Certified Protection Professional (CPP) Contingency plan Contract 64 Countermeasures Criticality Loss event Predictable environment Proactive
ISBN: 0-536-91271-8
Identifying and Exploring Security Essentials, by Mary Clifford. Published by Prentice-Hall. Copyright © 2004 by Pearson Education, Inc.
IDENTIFYING THE ESSENTIALS Probability Proprietary Reactive Risk Risk analysis Risk assessment Security audit Security survey Stable environment Threat Threat assessment Vulnerability Vulnerability assessment Vulnerability gap
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Everyone is interested in security issues at one point or another. In any local newspaper on any given day, a person will read stories that may affect how
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