Managing Cybersecurity Resources: A Cost-Benefit Analysis (The Mcgraw-Hill Homeland Security Series)

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Managing Cybersecurity Resources: A Cost-Benefit Analysis (The Mcgraw-Hill Homeland Security Series)
by Lawrence A. Gordon, Martin P. Loeb
from McGraw-Hill

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Finance for the CSO
  Nutshell review - This book provides an excellent presentation of financial concepts as they relate to information security. The only problem with these techniques is, as Richard Bejtlich points out in his review, the difficulty in obtaining accurate input data for these models. But regardless, if you are a manager charged with budget planning you should read this book.

• An excellent book with only one major flaw
  Managing Cybersecurity Resources (MCR) is an excellent book. I devoured it in one sitting on a weather-extended flight from Washington-Dulles to Boston. MCR teaches security professionals how to think properly about making security resource allocation decisions by properly defining terms, concepts, and models. The only problem I have with MCR is the reason I subtracted one star: its recommended strategy, cost-benefit analysis, relies upon estimated probabilities of loss and cost savings that are unavailable... more info

• An excellent economic analysis of cybersecurity investments
  This book is very timely and extremely useful as a tool for key decision-makers in organizations - Chief Technology Offiers, Information System Managers, and general managers, including CEOs, as well as academics. How do you allocate scarce resources to increasing cybersecurity, in the context of other competing claims ? Professors Gordon and Loeb provide a solid economic framework to do this. They bring their decades of experience researching and teaching about a cost-benefit approach to managerial... more info

• Excellent reference
  This book provides an excellent discussion of key economic principles needed to make managing cybersecurity resources more effective. I really liked the nice examples provided throughout the book. The examples reinforce the economic concepts and applications. I foresee this book becoming a prime reference for me.

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