Overview
- Provides an essential
- understanding of the threats and safeguards in cyberspace
- Introduces a lifecycle
- approach to cybersecurity investments, facilitating a structured decision making
- Presents well-founded decision making techniques, enhancing transparency for the management
- Introduces calculation methods for economic indicators in cybersecurity, allowing readers to make verified financial evaluations
- Includes best practices for risk analysis
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Progress in IS (PROIS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
This book offers readers essential orientation on cybersecurity safeguards, and first and foremost helps them find the right balance between financial expenditures and risk mitigation. This is achieved by pursuing a multi-disciplinary approach that combines well-founded methods from economics and the computer sciences. Established decision making techniques are embedded into a walk-through for the complete lifecycle of cybersecurity investments. Insights into the economic aspect of the costs and benefits of cybersecurity are supplemented by established and innovative economic indicators. Readers will find practical tools and techniques to support reasonable decision making in cybersecurity investments. Further, they will be equipped to encourage a common understanding using economic aspects, and to provide cost transparency for the senior management.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Stefan Beissel, Ph.D., MBA, CISA, CISSP, PMP, holds a professorship in Information Systems at a university of applied sciences in Germany. He has many years of professional experience in Information Security and IT Audit at internationally operating companies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cybersecurity Investments
Book Subtitle: Decision Support Under Economic Aspects
Authors: Stefan Beissel
Series Title: Progress in IS
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30460-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-30458-8Published: 09 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80815-4Published: 07 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30460-1Published: 29 February 2016
Series ISSN: 2196-8705
Series E-ISSN: 2196-8713
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 281
Number of Illustrations: 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: IT in Business, Systems and Data Security, Innovation/Technology Management, Operations Research/Decision Theory