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KNOW Cyber Risk is a quick, informal, and entertaining story that provides the reader with answers to the question: “How can I manage a successful IT security assessment?”

Many managers and security specialists in commercial and government organizations have discovered that the four most frustrating duties related to conducting IT security assessments are:

• understanding the complex concepts of IT security.
• selling the need for security to senior management.
• motivating IT managers to request IT security assessments.
• making security solutions conform to business needs.

If you are one of these frustrated individuals, this book is a must read, because it was specifically written to reduce or eliminate your frustrations by providing you with successful ways to accomplish these difficult duties.

This story is about Dan, an IT manager, tasked with doing an IT security assessment, working with IT security consultants, and reporting the results to his corporate executives. Sound familiar? Over the course of six weeks, Dan and his three Friday night poker buddies (a cop, a product salesman, and a government bureaucrat) develop the practical strategies that allow Dan to successfully complete his IT security assessment.

The strategies used by Dan are based on the authors’ combined 60 years of experience as successful IT managers, security experts, and executives.

The strategies address how to successfully:

• manage and control an IT security assessment.
• approach an IT security assessment from a business perspective.
• communicate effectively with internal or external security experts.
• gain organizational consensus.
• promote and sell recommendations to executives.

It is the authors’ hope that by presenting the development and implementation of these strategies through Dan and his buddies, the readers will gain an applied knowledge of these strategies and use them to be successful in managing their IT security assessments.

– Jim Litchko
   Al Payne, CISSP

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