Security Metrics Management: How to Manage the Costs of an Assets Protection Program

Description
This book details how security professionals can measure the costs of their assets protection programme - their security programme - as well as its successes and failures.

Program

Security Metrics Management is designed to provide basic guidance to security professionals. It demonstrates how to measure the costs of their assets protection programme - their security programme - as well as its successes and failures.




The book includes a discussion of how to use the metrics to brief management, justify budget and use trend analyses to develop a more efficient and effective assets protection programme.




Key Features:

• Includes over 100 checklists, flowcharts, and other illustrations that depict examples of security metrics and how to use them.
• Drawings, model processes, model procedures and forms enable the reader to immediately put concepts to use in a practical application.
• Provides clear direction on how to meet new organisational demands on the Security Professional.

Overview of Security Metrics & Management:


Security metrics is the application of quantitative, statistical, and/or mathematical analyses to measuring security functional trends and workload. In other words, tracking what each function is doing in terms of level of effort (LOE), costs, and productivity.

Security metrics management is the managing of an assets protection programme and related security functions through the use of metrics. It can be used where managerial tasks must be supported for such purposes as:

• Supporting the security professionals position on budget matters.
• Justifying the cost-effectiveness of decisions.
• Determining the impact of downsizing on service and support to customers, etc.

Authors: Gerald Kovacich, Edward Halibozek
Publisher: Butterworth Heinemann
ISBN 10: 0750678992
ISBN 13: 9780750678995
Pages: 352
Format: Hard Cover
Published Date: November 2005
Availability: Ex Stock

If you are implementing an asset protection programme and want a routemap to using metrics then this is the guide you need. Order today!