
A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management
Bruce Oliver Newsome(Author)
Perseublishing (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 14. December 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
218 pages
978-1-951171-10-0 (ISBN)
Description
A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management is the first textbook to combine both security management and risk management. Its concepts and skills can be applied in all domains: business, public administration, public safety, criminology, computing, sports, tourism, agriculture, healthcare, education, intelligence, policing, and international relations.
This second edition adds the latest issues from pandemics, lockdowns, wars, crimes, and cyber risks, NEW "Expert Perspectives," NEW "Think about it" boxes, UPDATED "Official Standards," NEW "End-of-Chapter debates," NEW chapter summaries, questions, and exercises, and a glossary of definitions and abbreviations.
Consultant and professor Bruce Oliver Newsome Ph.D. helps readers to understand, analyze, assess, and manage security and risks.
Organized into 12 brief, accessible chapters, this book shows readers why security and risk management is becoming more important (Chapter 1), how to conceptualize, analyze, and assess security (Chapter 2), capacity (Chapter 3), risk (Chapter 4), hazards, threats, and contributors (Chapter 5), target exposure and vulnerability (Chapter 6), uncertainty and probability (Chapter 7), and events and returns (Chapter 8), how to develop more secure cultures, structures, and processes (Chapter 9), how to establish risk tolerability and sensitivity (Chapter 10), how to strategize and control intolerable risks (Chapter 11), and how to record, communicate, monitor, and audit security and risk management (Chapter 12).
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Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
498 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-951171-10-0 (9781951171100)
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Person
Bruce Oliver Newsome, Ph.D., is a historian, political scientist, and defence, risk, and security consultant. He held standing faculty positions at University of Texas, University of San Diego, University of California Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, and the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. Before teaching, he spent five years at the RAND Corporation, advising national governments on defence and security. He served in the British Army reserves, US Army National Guard, and Texas State Guard.