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Title: Defending the Digital Frontier: A Security Agenda by Ernst & Young LLP, Mark W. Doll, Sajai Rai, Jose Granado ISBN: 0-471-22144-9 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 20 December, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: If the CEO needs a wakeup call, try this
Comment: Defending the Digital Frontier starts with a patriotic forward by former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. I think that was my favorite part of the book, I know a lot of people are starting to think of 911 as old news, but I am not one of them. Giuliani issues a call to action to protect your information asset's for the nation¹s good. I started into the book quite excited.
The first three chapters say the same thing over and over again but with different word patterns. The gist is we¹re under attack and you better get ready for it. When your computers go down, so will your business. True, but that could be covered with one paragraph, and perhaps a couple war stories.
Ernst and Young's experts Mark W. Doll, Saiay Rai and Jose Granado propose that we can achieve homeland security with their 3 R¹s of the Security Agenda: Restrict, Run and Recover(SM). While it certainly is not that simple in practice, I really like the catchy slogan, it is perfect for communicating with senior executives.
The writing style is a bit dry, the repetition and lack of depth hurt the work, but the topic is very important. It does a great job of convincing a CEO class executive that they need a well founded security program. It just doesn't help them get it started. I want to be very specific with my concerns since I am scoring the book lower that the other (mostly anonymous) reviewers. I am a senior manager, the target audience for the book. People ask me for decisions or try to sell me on their product or solution all the time. It isn't that they tell me lies, they just do not give me all the information I need to make an informed decision. After a while you learn to be very careful about making decisions without all the facts. This work needs more case studies, more specific, proven examples. It also needs more takeaways, information I can use. Granted it is very unfair to ask E&Y to give away intellectual capital that took them a lot of sweat and blood to create, but at least give the reader enough information to assess our condition and understand what the next steps are.
I encourage Ernst and Young to do a second edition with some "show me the beef" hardnosed technical reviewers and produce a great book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Answered Prayer
Comment: I've been in the business game for a long time (26 yrs). During that time I've learned many things, sometimes willingly, sometimes by force. I have to admit that I was resistant to the idea of adopting the internet, especially when it came to transacting with my clients and customers. As we've all learned though, with digital and internet technologies growing by leaps and bounds, its a necessary evil. So being my pesimist self I've become semi-obsessed with understanding as many aspects of digital security, because if I don't understand it, then I can't very well expect my clients to have faith in my promises, can I?
"Defending the Digital Frontier: A Security Agenda" is the first book i've read, and I've read plenty, that is written so the right people can understand it. The "techies" already understand this stuff, but the people who make the decisions (e.g. how much budget those techies get to keep your netwrok secure), like the CEO and CFO, have never had it portrayed as a priority, like Mark Doll has been able to do in this book.
I usually don't review books, but with all of the recent news about networks being compromised, like the 8 million credit cards stollen this past week, I felt it was my responsibility to make sure I said my piece.
Buy it, read it, and use it, for yourself and for your customers.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting reading
Comment: In a time a great tension and uncertainty this book is a terrific guide to understanding IT security and developing a strategy to protect an organization. As an executive this book is very helpful. I plan on giving it to my peers to remind them that all executives have responsibility for security.
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Title: The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon, Steve Wozniak ISBN: 0471237124 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 04 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Know Your Enemy: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics, and Motives of the Blackhat Community by The Honeynet Project ISBN: 0201746131 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 31 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Snort 2.0 Intrusion Detection by Brian Caswell, Jay Beale, James C. Foster, Jeremy Faircloth ISBN: 1931836744 Publisher: Syngress Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World by Bruce Schneier ISBN: 0387026207 Publisher: Copernicus Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Ram Charan, Charles Burck, Larry Bossidy ISBN: 0609610570 Publisher: Crown Business Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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