A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management - Brossura

Newsome, Bruce Oliver

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ISBN 10: 1951171101 ISBN 13: 9781951171100

Casa editrice: Perseublishing, 2022

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull?autore

Bruce Oliver Newsome, Ph.D., is a professor, researcher, trainer, and consultant in the policies & practices of risk, security, and defense. He is the author of more than 20 books, including the textbooks "Security and Risk Management" (2nd edition, 2023), "Homeland Security and Emergency Management" (2nd edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), "Countering New(est) Terrorism" (CRC Press, 2018), and "Research, Analysis, and Writing" (Sage, 2015). Professor Newsome is a graduate of FBI Citizens Academy, participates in Infragard and the Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force, and is certified in Infrastructure Liaison, open-source, imagery, and geospatial intelligence. At the RAND Corporation, he advised national governments on risk, security, and defense. He held standing faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, and University of California Berkeley. He is currently Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Perseublishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1951171101
• ISBN 13: 9781951171100
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 218
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile