Summary
Justify your network security investment
Understand basic network security issues, no technical expertise required
Develop the ROI, TCO, and ROSI metrics to cost-justify network security investments
Build the business case for network security including cost and manpower justifications
Design your organizations risk tolerance model
The Business Case for Network Security provides valuable information on the justification for investment in network security solutions and services. This book covers the most current concepts and products from Cisco and other vendors, and covers the latest topics in network attacks, network security, and ROSI (Return-on-Security-Investment) and other number-crunching techniques that yield both objective and subjective data. The Business Case for Network Security presents an overview of security technology, giving the reader a holistic and objective model to help them quantify, not only the quantifiable such as Return-on-Investment and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), but also the less quantifiable such as risk tolerance. The book methodically presents a range of network attacks, mitigation techniques, and security systems. These topics are explained in layman's words with the aid of graphics, thus will be easily understandable to readers with non-technical backgrounds. Risks, and technologies available to protect against them, are explained in detail. Once readers have gauged their risk tolerance they will be shown 3 levels of network security, allowing them to align their risk aversion with an appropriate security model: basic, modest, or comprehensive. They then build a list of capital expenditures and fixed costs to determine a realistic figure for Total Cost of Ownership. The TCO will be utilized as the foundation in calculating ROSI.
Catherine Paquet is a CCSP, CCNP, and a certified Cisco Systems instructor. Catherine has a master's degree in business administration with a major in Management Information Systems - MBA (MIS). Catherine co-authored Cisco Press' Building Scalable Cisco Networks, Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks, and Building Cisco Remote Access Networks.
Warren Saxe has hands-on experience at calculating ROI and TCO and negotiating with senior executives. He was a region General Manager of a Fortune 1000 semi-conductor distributor for 15 years.
Author Bio
Catherine Paquet is a CCSP, CCNP, and a certified Cisco Systems instructor. Catherine has a master's degree in business administration with a major in Management Information Systems - MBA (MIS). Catherine co-authored Cisco Press' Building Scalable Cisco Networks, Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks, and Building Cisco Remote Access Networks.
Warren Saxe has hands-on experience at calculating ROI and TCO and negotiating with senior executives. He was a region General Manager of a Fortune 1000 semi-conductor distributor for 15 years.
