Insider Threat: Protecting the Enterprise from Sabotage, Spying, and Theft by Eric Cole, Sandra Ring
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- Pub. Date: March 2006
- 350pp
- Sales Rank: 754,494
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- Pub. Date: March 2006
- Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
- Format: Paperback, 350pp
- Sales Rank: 754,494
- ISBN-13: 9781597490481
- ISBN: 1597490482
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Cole and Ring, network security specialists, address threats to security perpetrated from inside the organization. They explain the key technologies used in insider attacks, and show how to recognize threats and use various tools for detecting security breaches, such as mole detection tools, profiling, monitoring, anomaly detection, and signature analysis. The book is distributed in the US by O'Reilly. Annotation © 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Within this text is information to teach IT professionals and law enforcement officials about the dangers posed by insiders to a company's IT infrastructure and how to mitigate these risks by designing and implementing secure IT systems as well as security and human resource policies.
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Dr. Eric Cole is an industry recognized security expert, technology visionary and scientist, with over 15 year's hands-on experience. Dr. Cole currently performs leading edge security consulting and works in research and development to advance the state of the art in information systems security. Dr. Cole has over a decade of experience in information technology, with a focus on perimeter defense, secure network design, vulnerability discovery, penetration testing, and intrusion detection systems. Dr. Cole has a Masters in Computer Science from NYIT, and Ph.D. from Pace University with a concentration in Information Security. Dr. Cole is the author of several books to include Hackers Beware, Hiding in Plain Site, Network Security Bible and Insider Threat. He is also the inventor of over 20 patents and is a researcher, writer, and speaker for SANS Institute and faculty for The SANS Technology Institute, a degree granting institution.
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October 21, 2006: Do you know how to prevent employees and contractors from stealing your corporate data? If you don?t, then this book is for you. Authors Eric Cole and Sandra Ring, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that shows you how to protect your enterprise from sabotage, spying and theft. Cole and Ring, begin with an introduction on how bad the insider threat problem really is and why you should be concerned about it. Then, the authors cover a wide range of technologies and methods that can be used by an insider to cause harm to a company. Next, they discuss unique insider threats to state and local government institutions. The authors continue by drawing your attention to the fact that insiders within the federal government do not just commit espionage. They also discuss various threats to information, such as sabotage and theft, the impact of these actions to the reputation and financial health of organizations, and describe several real-life case studies involving well-known commercial companies. Next, the authors highlight the threat of identity theft and what institutions can do to help prevent insiders from participating in fraud rings. The authors also focus on insider threats from government contractors. Then, they do a profile of insider threats. The authors continue by showing you how to respond to problem of insider threat by looking at technologies and concepts that can be used to control and limit the damage that insiders can perform. Finally, they examine how a company goes about surviving an insider threat and increasing their defenses over time to minimize the amount of damage it will cause. This most excellent book will show you why internal threats are exponentially more dangerous that external threats. More importantly, this book will show you how to protect your most important intellectual property assets.
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