The essential guide to e-business security for managers and IT professionals Securing E-Business Systems provides business managers and executives with an overview of the components of an effective e-business infrastructure, the areas of greatest risk, and best practices safeguards. It outlines a security strategy that allows the identification of new vulnerabilities, assists in rapid safeguard deployment, and provides for continuous safeguard evaluation and modification. The book thoroughly outlines a proactive and evolving security strategy and provides a methodology for ensuring that applications are designed with security in mind. It discusses emerging liabilities issues and includes security best practices, guidelines, and sample policies. This is the bible of e-business security. Timothy Braithwaite (Columbus, MD) is Deputy Director of Information Assurance Programs for Titan Corporation. He has managed data centers, software projects, systems planning, and budgeting organizations, and has extensive experience in project and acquisition management. He is also the author of Y2K Lessons Learned (Wiley: 0-471-37308-7).

Securing E-Business Systems: A Guide for Managers and Executives

Business & Money

Braithwaite, Timothy

Management & Leadership

wiley

This book presents an application of total quality management (TQM) principles, tools, and techniques to the business of defining, constructing, and delivering automated information systems and services. This book will prepare anyone within an information services (IS) department to understand and fully participate in the quality improvement and reengineering challenges facing corporate America and the government. It also illustrates for IS user management and the quality assurance professional some of the actions an IS provider needs to take in order to support the quality initiatives of the rest of the organization. Author Timothy Braithwaite uses his many years of experience as a systems development and data processing executive to apply the principles of TQM to the development process and to the management practices of the IS department. His approach helps any IS department to easily comprehend this to-the-point primer on how to apply TQM in the typical IS departmental environment. Key topics of the book include a generic treatment of TQM applied to the business of IS; the need to improve the quality and performance of most information systems and services; TQM and the management of the systems development process; how to create an environment for success for quality improvement initiatives; steps for implementing a system of continuous improvement in IS; creating a quality-conscious IS organization; Deming's l4 points applied to the IS organization; identifying and using cost of quality to monitor IS projects and identify areas requiring corrective action; steps for getting an IS/TQM program started and hints for resuscitating one that has floundered.

Information Service Excellence Through Tqm: Building Partnerships for Business Process Reengineering and Continuous Improvement

Computers & Technology

Programming

Asq Pr

In today's competitive environment, it's crucial that the investment you make in information technology doesn't fall short. The need to get value for each technology dollar you spend was never greater than it is today. If you're a nontechnical business manager, this book will help you participate more effectively when decisions are made about expensive automation issues. The author has developed a unique but easy-to-understand model that you can use when communicating with computer professionals and companies regarding information technology. As a result, you will be able to better evaluate the quality awareness and system development practices of potential information technology providers. You will also be able to remove much of the confusion and intimidation often experienced by nontechnical managers; use the model to put your next technology project on a successful path and keep it there; and make better decisions that will positively affect productivity, profitability, and value.

The Power of It: Maximizing Your Technology Investments

Asq Corp

"This is a must-read for the entire CXO community if businesses are to survive in cyberspace. Attack methodologies and the cyber threat poised against our business systems are advancing rapidly. Business leaders are soon to face downstream liability issues for the damage their unprotected and exploited systems cause not only to themselves but to all of those with whom they do business in cyberspace. American businesses are now the target of choice by our nation's enemies. We may secure the airways, ports, and borders, but only the boardrooms of America can ensure the survival of our economy." —John R. Thomas, Colonel, U.S. Army, Retired Former Commander of the DoD, Global Operations and Security Center 
Today's e-business depends on the security of its networks and information technology infrastructure to safeguard its customers and its profits. But with rapid innovation and the emergence of new threats and new countermeasures, keeping up with security is becoming more complex than ever. Securing E-Business Systems offers a new model for developing a proactive program of security administration that works as a continuous process of identifying weaknesses and implementing solutions. This book offers a real, working design for managing an IT security program with the attention it truly warrants, treating security as a constant function that adapts tomeet a company's changing security needs. 
Topics include: 
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<li>Security weaknesses</li> <li>Safeguarding technologies</li> <li>Countermeasure best practices</li> <li>Establishing an adaptable e-business security management program</li> <li>Essential elements of a corporate security management program</li> <li>Functions, structure, staffing, and contracting considerations in security management</li> <li>Implementing intrusion detection technology</li> <li>Designing tomorrow's e-business application for secured operations</li> <li>Contemporary rationales for justifying increased spending on security programs</li> <li>Emerging liability issues for e-businesses</li> </ul>

Securing E-Business Systems: A Guide for Managersand Executives

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Securing E-Business Systems: A Guide for Managers and Executives

Information Service Excellence Through Tqm: Building Partnerships for Business Process Reengineering and Continuous Improvement

The Power of It: Maximizing Your Technology Investments

Securing E-Business Systems: A Guide for Managersand Executives