Managing Cybersecurity Resources A Cost-Benefit Analysis

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-10-19
Publisher(s): McGraw Hill
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Summary

"The Internet is one of the great innovations of the past century, presenting its users with both unprecedented opportunities and unavoidable perils. Managing Cybersecurity Resources outlines a cost-benefit framework to protect against the invasion of information networks while outlining the resources needed to compete and grow."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Lawrence A. Gordon is the Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Managerial Accounting and Information Assurance and the director of the doctoral program at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. Gordon is one of the pioneers in the area of information security economics and has published a wide-range of papers on the subject. He is also the author of several books, including Managerial Accounting: Concepts and Empirical Evidence. Gordon is editor in chief of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and is a member of the editorial boards of several other journals.

Martin P. Loeb is a professor of accounting and information assurance at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. Loeb is one of the pioneers in the area of information security economics and has published a wide-range of papers on the subject. Loeb is the editor of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and serves, or has served, on the editorial boards of several other publications.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction
1(26)
A Cost-Benefit Framework for Cybersecurity
27(26)
The Costs and Benefits Related to Cybersecurity Breaches
53(14)
The Right Amount to Spend on Cybersecurity
67(28)
Risk Management and Cybersecurity
95(16)
The Business Case for Cybersecurity
111(18)
Cybersecurity Auditing
129(10)
Cybersecurity's Role in National Security
139(26)
Concluding Comments
165(8)
Glossary 173(6)
Acronyms 179(4)
References 183(10)
Selected Annotated Bibliography 193(18)
Index 211

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