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How to Develop and Implement a Security Master Plan Review"How to Develop and Implement a Security Master Plan" by Timothy D. Giles CRC Press ISBN 978-1-4200-8625-6 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Purchased for a little over $70.00 with the intent that the content would assist in aspects of security planning and development, the book did not meet my expectations. To begin, I find the use of illustrations to be puzzling and inane. For example, Figure 1.2 depicts a lineup of faceless, suit-jacketed hands writing in notebooks as the writer apparently felt the need to describe `project teams'. For workplace violence, Figure 2.1 is a photograph of a mean-faced man shouting into a cell phone. Instead of supporting the content, these and other illustrations appear to be scattered throughout much like one would see in a bad Power Point presentation.
Chapter 6 attempts to provide "Security and Computer Use Standards for Employees". The author advises users to activate power-on passwords for boot-up, hard disks access as well as encrypting files, etc. While these are certainly worthwhile goals, having a disparate user base responsible for setting and maintaining these features on their systems in any sizable organization is un-manageable even with IT department assistance. The chapter also discusses the evils of Napster file sharing. In a book as recent as this - 2009, there are a number of more heinous file sharing sites that should be referenced since Napster has now been legitimatized and deals primarily in music versus filesharing. And for some reason, the seemingly generic standards specifically identify that Norton anti-virus program be used. Overall, the information security section is lacking on many levels.
Chapter 12 lays out the typical contents of a "security master plan." Interestingly, there is no mention of information security. All aspects of the master plan center around physical security including the "Security Technology Plan" section which touches on physical access control, CCTV, etc.
While the physical security aspects of the book are somewhat better than the information security content, the overall criticism is that the book tries to cover too much area and never drills down deep enough in any one topic to be of any real value in developing security plans.
Ron Baklarz CISSP, CISA, CISM, NSA-IAM/IEM
June 7, 2009
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