Understanding Security Issues

Security Awareness empowers you to think like a security professional to protect assets at work, your travels, and as a result, your personal assets against evolving security threats. It is a book that every person working in an office or at home should read. This book details a security process for identifying assets, threats to those assets, asset vulnerabilities, protections, and risks resulting from protections. Special attention is given to travel as it has come to be a primary risk issue. The security process is applied to a series of real-world scenarios in terms of common security assets and protections. Security involves managing known risks and anticipating potential risks. Security Awareness provides pragmatic insight into balancing affordable security protection and risk.

Readers will learn:

• Security Awareness—exemplified in five security scenarios describing how to protect yourself, your company or organization, while on travel domestically or internationally.
• Security Process—Identifying assets, threats to those assets, vulnerabilities that make assets vulnerable to attack, protections to mitigate vulnerabilities and the resulting risk after protections are applied.
• Security Mindset—Thinking like a security professional to come up with common protections.