Bureaucratic Entrepreneur or Risk Management for Security Professionals

Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to Be Effective in Any Unruly Organization

Author: Richard N Haass

provides clear, practical guidelines for setting goals and translating them into results. The result is a lively, useful book for Americans working in complex and unruly organizations and for students of both public administration and business.

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Haass (vice president and director, Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution) provides guidelines on how to manage relationships, set goals, and translate them into success. His insights into delicate working relationships will benefit those in government, the corporate world, and the non-profit sector, as well as students of public administration and business. This is a revised edition of , Houghton Mifflin, 1994. This edition includes anecdotes from the Clinton administration. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Risk Management for Security Professionals

Author: Carl Roper

This book describes the risk management methodology as a specific process, a theory, or a procedure for determining your assets, vulnerabilities, and threats and how security professionals can protect them.
Risk Management for Security Professionals is a practical handbook for security managers who need to learn risk management skills. It goes beyond the physical security realm to encompass all risks to which a company may be exposed. Risk Management as presented in this book has several goals:
Provides standardized common approach to risk management through a framework that effectively links security strategies and related costs to realistic threat assessment and risk levels
Offers flexible yet structured framework that can be applied to the risk assessment and decision support process in support of your business or organization
Increases awareness in terms of potential loss impacts, threats and vulnerabilities to organizational assets
Ensures that various security recommendations are based on an integrated assessment of loss impacts, threats, vulnerabilities and resource constraints


Risk management is essentially a process methodology that will provide a cost-benefit payback factor to senior management.

Provides a stand-alone guide to the risk management process

Helps security professionals learn the risk countermeasures and their pros and cons

Addresses a systematic approach to logical decision-making about the allocation of scarce security resources

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Goes beyond the physical security realm to encompass all risks to which a company may be exposed, and provides a systematic approach to acquiring and analyzing information necessary to support decision- makers in protection of assets and allocation of security resources. Offers recommendations for managers who are responsible for accepting risks and planning and funding security programs, and illustrates situational solutions for classified or unclassified government and civilian environments. Includes forms, assessment sheets, and checklists. The author is a consultant in the field. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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