Information Technology Risk Management in Enterprise Environments: A Review of Industry Practices and a Practical Guide to Risk Management Teams

By Jake Kouns and Daniel Minoli

• Discusses all types of corporate risks and practical means of defending against them.
• Security is currently identified as a critical area of Information Technology management by a majority of government, commercial, and industrial organizations.
• Offers an effective risk management program, which is the most critical function of an information security program.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Release date: Jan 5, 2010
• ISBN: 9780470558119

Jake Kouns

Jake Kouns has an MBA with a concentration in Information Security from James Madison University. He holds a number of certifications including CISSP, CISM, CISA and CGEIT. He is currently Director of Cyber Security and Technology Risks Underwriting for Markel Corporation, a specialty insurance company. He has presented at many well-known security conferences including RSA, CISO Executive Summit, EntNet IEEE GlobeCom, CanSecWest, and SyScan. He is the co-author of Information Technology Risk Management in Enterprise Environments, and has also been interviewed numerous times as an expert in the security industry. Jake is the co-founder, CEO, and CFO of the Open Security Foundation (OSF), a non-profit organisation that oversees the operations of the Open Source Vulnerbility Database (OSVDB.org) and DataLossDB.