Information Security And It Risk Management

Agrawal's Information Security and Risk Management, with a technical rather than managerial focus, gives readers the knowledge and skills needed to compete for and succeed in information security roles. The concepts of information security are introduced, but readers are also given the opportunity to learn and practice system administration and other Information Technology skills. Hands-on activities are included throughout as a critical means for readers to learn the material and remain engaged.

Manish Agrawal recieved his PhD Information Systems from SUNY Buffalo in 2002 and?Bachelor and Master degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India. He is an Associate Professor in the?Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences at the University of South Florida. He currently teaches courses in business data communications, information security and web applications development.?He was the recipient of USF's university-wide award recognizing teaching excellence in 2006 and has published research in academic journals including Management Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Decision Support Systems and the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce. His research and teaching have been funded by the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Justice, the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum and Sun Microsystems.