Overview
- Teaches the reader how to think about security risk problems and rigorously evaluate any scenario irrespective of its complexity or context
- Provides “thought experiments” to test the reader’s understanding of basic security risk assessment concepts
- Provides quantitative methods to evaluate the effectiveness of security controls, identify meaningful performance metrics, and formulate a logic-based risk mitigation strategy
Part of the book series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications (ASTSA)
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About this book
This book provides the conceptual foundation of security risk assessment and thereby enables reasoning about risk from first principles. It presents the underlying theory that is the basis of a rigorous and universally applicable security risk assessment methodology. Furthermore, the book identifies and explores concepts with profound operational implications that have traditionally been sources of ambiguity if not confusion in security risk management. Notably, the text provides a simple quantitative model for complexity, a significant driver of risk that is typically not addressed in security-related contexts.
Risk and The Theory of Security Risk Assessment is a primer of security risk assessment pedagogy, but it also provides methods and metrics to actually estimate the magnitude of security risk. Concepts are explained using numerous examples, which are at times both enlightening and entertaining. As a result, the book bridges alongstanding gap between theory and practice, and therefore will be a useful reference to students, academics and security practitioners.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Security Risk Assessment Fundamentals
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Quantitative Concepts and Methods
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Security Risk Assessment and Management
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Carl S. Young specializes in applying science to information and physical security risk management. He has held senior positions in the US government, the financial sector, consulting and academia. He is the author of three previous textbooks in addition to numerous technical papers, and has been an adjunct professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). Mr. Young earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics and physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Risk and the Theory of Security Risk Assessment
Authors: Carl S. Young
Series Title: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30600-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30599-4Published: 29 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30602-1Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-30600-7Published: 28 January 2020
Series ISSN: 1613-5113
Series E-ISSN: 2363-9466
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 274
Number of Illustrations: 81 b/w illustrations
Topics: Security Science and Technology, Risk Management, Systems and Data Security, Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Complex Systems