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A book by a business manager who knows�what makes a business work and why best practice information security is essential.

This new�pocket guide in the Practical IT Governance series, provides initial guidance to all who are concerned with IT regulatory compliance in North America.
A key challenge for all IT executive teams is to ensure that the organization avoids breaches of any criminal or civil law, as well as any statutory, regulatory or contractual obligations, and of any security requirements.
Everyone in the IT organization (and outside it) needs to have an understanding of the legislation that applies to your organization. This Pocket Guide gives handy, easily-understood guidance on the key aspects of all the key regulations.

Reap the rewards of a Green IT Strategy with this essential guide
Climate change can be an emotive issue. This book takes a cool look at the subject and shows you what makes it relevant to your business. A big part of the answer is energy. Computers consume a lot of energy, and energy costs money. The cost of powering and cooling data servers over three years is currently 1.5 times the cost of purchasing the server hardware. Over the next two decades, global demand for energy is predicted to rise by 50%, which means that your long-term energy costs are also likely to increase. In the end, if your organisation’s energy costs are high, it makes sense for you to focus on ways to reduce energy consumption. Improving the efficiency of data centre power supplies and reducing IT power requirements in the office are examples of how Green IT can yield a substantial return on investment.
 
This business guide to Green IT was written to introduce, to a business audience, the opposing groups and the key… Read More

Find out how you can reduce risk with a sound IT governance strategy
Corporate governance increasingly provides the context within which twenty-first century organisations have to assess and deal with investments in, and risks to, their corporate information assets and the Information and Communications Technology (ICT/IT) infrastructure, within which those information assets are collected, manipulated, stored and deployed. But what is corporate governance, and why is it important to the IT professional? Why is IT governance important to the company director, and what do directors of companies – both quoted and unquoted – need to know?
 
This book will answer these vital questions and set out – for managers, executives and IT professionals – the practical steps necessary to meet today’s corporate and IT governance requirements.
 
 
The Calder-Moir Framework
The book also explains how to integrate each standard and framework using The Calder-Moir Framework (download for free from… Read More

This book is the ideal guide for anyone tackling - or about to tackle - ISO 27001 for the first time.

The first glossary to present the full range of terms relating to business continuity
BS25999 is the formal standard for business continuity management. This invaluable pocket guide will help you to understand the language of business continuity. It contains definitions both of the key words in BS25999 and of the relevant terms found in the information security standard, ISO27001. Other definitions provided in the glossary have been taken from the earlier glossaries published by the Business Continuity Institute and the DRI (Institute for Continuity Management), from the IT service management standard, ISO20000, and from the IT Infrastructure Library (ITILv3). Created to facilitate the adoption of BS25999, the combined glossary sets out the most common business continuity terms and offers an authoritative explanation of what they mean. It will therefore enable business continuity to be discussed clearly and consistently throughout the English-speaking world.
 
Benefits to business include:… Read More

Key features include:
The ISO/IEC 27000 Family of Information Security Standards
Background to the Standards
Specification vs Code of Practice
Certification process
The ISMS and ISO27001
Overview of ISO/IEC 27001:2005
Documentation &�Records
Management Responsibility
Policy &�Scope
Risk Assessment
Implementation

Environmental regulations impact IT … Buy this guide and understand how!
Rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are leading to a gradual rise in the temperature of the earth. With the signature of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, many countries committed themselves to lowering their emissions of greenhouse gases in order to reduce the speed at which climate change is happening. Many organisations are now responding to the issue of climate change by improving their energy efficiency. Public opinion and customer expectations are also encouraging companies to adopt green initiatives. IT represents an important element of your organisation’s environmental policy, not only as regards carbon emissions but also in terms of waste disposal.
 
This pocket guide is intended to provide company directors and executives with a brief guide to the regulatory requirements that are driven by the Green Agenda. It offers you an overview of the key legislative initiatives and environmental standards, and includes an… Read More

Knowing about information security is not enough. You also have to deploy it across the business - which means convincing management of its importance. Learn how with this essential guide!
Information technology plays a fundamental role in the operations of any modern business. While the confidentiality and integrity of your organisation's information have to be protected, a business still needs to have this information readily available in order to be able to function from day to day. If you are an information security practitioner, you need to be able to sell complex and often technical solutions to boards and management teams.
Persuading the board to invest in information security measures requires sales skills. As an information security professional, you are a scientific and technical specialist; and yet you need to get your message across to people whose primary interests lie elsewhere, in turnover and overall performance. In other words, you need to develop sales and marketing skills.
This… Read More

A Green office is a cost-effective office! Understand why with this handy reference guide!
Whether your organisation is implementing a focused Green IT strategy or a comprehensive programme to reduce carbon emissions, introducing Green initiatives is likely to be directly beneficial to your bottom line. This handy pocket guide explains the Green office to company directors and IT managers in terms they will find relevant to their organisation.
Growing concern about climate change has thrown the spotlight on energy conservation in the workplace. For many of us in today’s knowledge economy, the workplace is now the office rather than the factory floor. For the world to be able to limit emissions of carbon dioxide, business needs to ensure that offices make efficient use of energy.
 
The day-to-day running of the modern office depends on IT, and computers are heavy consumers of energy. Moreover, your office produces greenhouse gases, not only as a result of your IT equipment but also through the… Read More