Principles of Information Systems Security: Texts and Cases

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 464 pages
• Published by: Wiley
• Edition: 1st Edition March 17, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0471450561
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471450566
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.9 pounds

Product Description
The real threat to information system security comes from people, not computers. That's why students need to understand both the technical implementation of security controls, as well as the softer human behavioral and managerial factors that contribute to the theft and sabotage proprietary data.

Addressing both the technical and human side of IS security, Dhillon's Princliples of Information Systems Security: Texts and Cases equips managers (and those training to be managers) with an understanding of a broad range issues related to information system security management, and specific tools and techniques to support this managerial orientation. Coverage goes well beyond the technical aspects of information system security to address formal controls (the rules and procedures that need to be established for bringing about success of technical controls), as well as informal controls that deal with the normative structures that exist within organizations.

Back Cover Copy
No one ever arrested a computer for computer crime.

The real threat to information systems security comes from people, not computers. That’s why students need to understand both the technical implementation of security controls, as well as the softer human behavioral and managerial factors that contribute to the theft and sabotage of proprietary data.

Addressing both the technical and human side of information systems security, Dhillon’s Principles of Information Systems Security helps future managers understand the broad range of technical, managerial, ethical, and legal issues related to IS security, and equips them with specific tools and techniques to support effective IS security management.

Key

FEATURES

• Balanced coverage addresses the social and technical nature of IS security.
• Takes a managerial orientation, presenting key security challenges that information technology managers commonly face.
• Provides an analytical framework to conceptualize IS security problems.
• Draws on a range of disciplines, such as computer science, sociology, law, anthropology, and behavioral science.
• Cases put the theoretical material in real-life context.

Gurpreet Dhillon is a Professor of Information Systems in the School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information System Security, is the North American Regional Editor of the International Journal of Information Management, and sits on the editorial board of MISQ Executive.

Reader Reviews
This was a required text for my masters degree and it was a painful read. Although this book does contain factual information, it is presented in an overly flowery way. The diagrams are confusing and are counter-intiutive. $100? Fix the diagrams, cut half of the smarty-pants text and you'd have a short concise book.