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Investigations in the Workplace, Second Edition
Eugene F. Ferraro
Publication date: February 24, 2012; ISBN: 978-1-4398-1480-2, 79.95/£49.99
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Gleaned from Eugene Ferraro’s nearly three decades of experience, this volume provides both novice and experienced investigators with the most insightful information available on the processes for the proper and safe investigation of workplace crime and misconduct. Revised and updated with more methods, techniques, and case studies, the book includes new diagrams, checklists, and visuals to help readers put the material in context and make their investigations soar. Each chapter begins with Key Learning Points and is supplemented with boxed Tips, Traps, and Common Mistakes. An exhaustive appendix includes a glossary of common investigative terms, sample surveillance and investigative reports, advice on digital evidence, and more.
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Feature Article
Creating a Culture of Security Awareness
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If true security is to be realized in any organization, a culture of security awareness must be encouraged at all levels, from the top down. Regardless of the industry in which your organization operates, there are trade secrets, personnel information, customer information, and proprietary data that must be protected. At virtually every level of operation, people must be careful to protect the assets and interests of the organization they serve. This care will most effectively be derived from a workforce whose culture includes an awareness of security issues.
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Feature Article
Mobile Enterprise Transition and Business Expectations
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The goals of Mobile Enterprise Transition need to be in line with the goals of business. Business aims to achieve substantial value for itself, its customer, and its business partners out of its strategic mobile transition. Therefore, these MET goals primarily, and understandably, provide advantages of mobile technologies to business. However, they vary depending on the demographics and mobile maturity of the transitioning organization. In fact, the value from MET to business encompasses a large number of varying factors. A research survey on MET asked participants to offer descriptive comments on the value, as perceived by them, being provided by mobility to business. These mobile technology values to business can be summarized as follows.
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Investigations in the Workplace, Second Edition
Eugene F. Ferraro
Publication date: February 24, 2012; ISBN: 978-1-4398-1480-2, 79.95/£49.99
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Gleaned from Eugene Ferraro’s nearly three decades of experience, this volume provides both novice and experienced investigators with the most insightful information available on the processes for the proper and safe investigation of workplace crime and misconduct. Revised and updated with more methods, techniques, and case studies, the book includes new diagrams, checklists, and visuals to help readers put the material in context and make their investigations soar. Each chapter begins with Key Learning Points and is supplemented with boxed Tips, Traps, and Common Mistakes. An exhaustive appendix includes a glossary of common investigative terms, sample surveillance and investigative reports, advice on digital evidence, and more.
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Book Review
Ben Rothke: Security Reading Room
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Key IT Security Trends for 2012
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Kroll Ontrack announced the most important technology trends for the coming year. However, businesses that want to benefit from these trends need to look at adopting iron clad information management and security strategies to ensure data security and data loss avoidance
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News Item
Online Merchants Made Most Progress against Fraud in 13 Years
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CyberSource announced results of its 13th annual survey of eCommerce fraud. The overall picture: merchants are making gains against fraud but the battle continues. The fraud rate by order (the percentage of orders that turned out to be fraudulent) dropped from 0.9 percent in 2010 to 0.6 percent in 2011-the lowest in the 13 year history of the survey. But the cost of combating fraud continues to grow. Dollar losses were up, manual review continued to climb, and merchants reiterated their concern that fraud is becoming more difficult to detect. 27 percent of respondents said they are engaged in mobile commerce and initial indicators regarding fraud in that channel are promising.
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News Item
SharePoint Users Develop Insecure Habits
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A new survey finds almost half of SharePoint users disregard the security within SharePoint, and copy sensitive or confidential documents to insecure hard drives, USB keys or even email it to a third party.
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Feature Article
Untangle Your Virtual Team with 10 Most-Needed Norms
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In this article, Nancy Settle-Murphy of Guided Insights provides 10 "best practices" norms that can do the most to save time, reduce frustration and boost productivity of virtual teams. Extracted from one of her Bridging the Distance Virtual Leadership workshop series, these examples include specific actions that can support each one. For this piece, she touches on virtual meetings, decision-making, the use of email, shared documents and scheduling, areas for which a lack of explicit norms can cause especially thorny problems for virtual teams.
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Feature Article
Lean Management
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One of the concepts that is gaining popularity is called Lean management or Lean performance. It’s based on the principles from Toyota’s production system (TPS). These concepts helped take Toyota from a small car company to one of the market leaders in the automotive industry in terms of quality and efficiency. The primary goal is to get rid of waste that occurs in the product process. For most Lean efforts everything is based around the muda (waste). Muda translates into any activity that is wasteful, meaning it does not add any value or is unproductive. Seven activities fall into this category.
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Information Security Management Handbook, 2011 CD-ROM Edition
Publication date: August 26, 2011
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Reflecting the latest changes to information security and the CISSP® Common Body of Knowledge (CBK®), the Information Security Management Handbook, 2011 CD-ROM Edition updates the benchmark Volume 1 with a wealth of new information on mobile device security, adaptive threat defense, Web 2.0, virtualization, data leakage, and governance. Containing the complete contents of Volumes 1, 2,3, and this year’s Volume 4, the 2011 CD-ROM Edition is an authoritative resource that is linked, searchable by keyword, and organized under the CBK® domains. It also includes an extra volume's worth of information that has never appeared in the print editions.
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Encyclopedia of Information Assurance
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The Encyclopedia of Information Assurance is a comprehensive, fully searchable collection of articles and references that cover the wide range of subjects found within the field. This four-volume set is a reliable resource that presents new methods, techniques, and strategies. The entries and illustrations address every meaningful topic in information assurance including risk management, privacy, legal and regulatory compliance, auditing, and digital forensics. Live links are present throughout the online version, enabling in-depth research on any topic covered in the encyclopedia.
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Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP CBK, Second Edition
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This officially sanctioned resource is the best and most up-to-date study guide available for those seeking CISSP certification. Offering a compendium of information security topics, the book is detailed enough to also serve as an authoritative resource for those executives or organizational managers seeking to maintain or improve security measures. The book is packaged with a CD-ROM, which includes sample exams that simulate the actual exam, providing the same number and types of questions with the same allotment of time. It even grades the exam, provides correct answers, and identifies areas where more study is needed.
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Information Security Management Handbook, Sixth Edition
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The Information Security Management Handbook is the premier reference for information security practitioners and an essential document for conducting the intense review necessary to prepare for the CISSP exam. Now completely revised and updated and in its sixth edition, the handbook maps to the ten domains of the Information Security Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) and provides a complete understanding of all the items in it. This is a "must have" book for preparing for the CISSP exam and as a comprehensive, up-to-date reference.
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IT Today
Information Security Today
In the News
February 3, 2012 -
Ernst & Young loses 401k information of bank employees
February 3, 2012 -
Google calls Microsoft privacy claims 'myth' January 30, 2012 -
U.S. Intel chief makes insider leaks a top priority
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Privacy advocates worry about government efforts to expand computer security
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