Customer Reviews

IT Goverance and Open University InfoSec course (M886) - By: Jon Hall, 21 Sep 2004
Calder & Watkins considers,in an approachable way, the vulnerabilities that will be facedin for- & not-for-profit organisations at a level that is transferable: neither are they too specificin being technology biased, nor are they too generic at the level of vulnerability monitoring.

Moreover, Calder & Watkins has four other benefits:
* it neatly parallels the structure of the standard;
* each vulerability comes with detailed advice on how to implement a control to cover it;
* there is useful detail on vulnerabilities uncovered because of the use of the control; and, last bu not least,
* there are the trade-offs that arise between covering a vulnerability & leaving it uncovered.

These are very good reasons for studying the book & they're why we chose it as the basis for the Open University's new Information Security Management Course

Dr Jon G Hall, Lecturerin Information Security, Open University, UK

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IT Goverance and Open University InfoSec course (M886) - By: Jon Hall, 16 Sep 2004
Calder & Watkins considers,in an approachable way, the vulnerabilities that will be facedin for- & not-for-profit organisations at a level that is transferable: neither are they too specificin being technology biased, nor are they too generic at the level of vulnerability monitoring.

Moreover, Calder & Watkins has four other benefits:
* it neatly parallels the structure of the standard;
* each vulerability comes with detailed advice on how to implement a control to cover it;
* there is useful detail on vulnerabilities uncovered because of the use of the control; and, last bu not least,
* there are the trade-offs that arise between covering a vulnerability & leaving it uncovered.

These are very good reasons for studying the book & they're why we chose it as the basis for the Open University's new Information Security Management Course

Dr Jon G Hall, Lecturerin Information Security, Open University, UK