Information Technology Security and Risk Management - Inductive Cases for Information Security

Information Technology Security and Risk Management: Inductive Cases for Information Security is a compilation of cases that examine recent developments and issues that are relevant to IT security managers, risk assessment and management, and the broader topic of IT security in the 21st century. As the title indicates, the cases are written and analyzed inductively, which is to say that the authors allowed the cases to speak for themselves, and lead where they would, rather than to approach the cases with presuppositions or assumptions regarding what the case should be -about-. In other words, the authors were given broad discretion to interpret a case in the most interesting and relevant manner possible; any given case may be -about- many things, depending on the perspective adopted by the reader, and many different lessons may be learned. The inductive approach of these cases reflects the design philosophy of the advanced IT Security and Risk Management course we te