Information Security: The Complete Reference, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

	Preface

Dear Reader,

You hold in your hands a vast and thorough repository of knowledge and experience. Information security is an incredibly complicated and ever-changing subject, and this book tackles the entire subject. The original concept for this book was to provide a security blueprint or cookbook—a comprehensive guide for building a complete, effective security program. This second edition stays true to that idea. The book was written for people who, like myself once upon a time, find themselves in a position of having to secure an organization’s network, and start to realize there’s more to security than a firewall. The technologies are important, and they are complex and varied. But the nontechnical aspects of security are ...