It Governance Publishing imprint: 127 books

This pocket guide gives you clear and reliable guidance on how to protect the information contained in your mobile phone. Written by one of the country’s top academic experts on information security, the guide covers such topics as safeguarding data through encryption, establishing a virtual private...

In Resilient Thinking, Phillip Wood discusses the importance of thinking laterally about potential impacts on your organisation and examines a new approach to resilience management. As you read this book you will learn how to recognise potential risks and threats, put cost-effective and workable plans into place and minimise the impact of an incident.

The insider threat poses a significant and increasing problem for organisations. The use of highly connected computers makes controlling information much more difficult than in the past. This is shown by the regular stories of data loss in the media such as the 25 million personal records mailed out...

Managing Information Security Breaches sets out a strategic framework for handling this kind of emergency. It focuses on the treatment of severe breaches and on how to re-establish safety and security once the breach has occurred. These recommendations support the controls for the treatment of breaches specified under ISO27001:2005.   

Business Continuity Management: Choosing to survive shows you how to systematically prepare your business, not only for the unthinkable, but also for smaller incidents which, if left unattended, could well lead to major disasters. A business continuity management (BCM) program is critical for every...

This book will help you develop your management skills. It is designed to assist you in understanding the characteristics of a high-performance manager, to help you assess where your strengths and development areas lie as a manager and to create a plan of action for realising your management potential.

Data Protection Compliance in the UK has been published to be an easy-read introduction for any employee required to support compliance with the DPA. It is essential reading if you have a responsibility for the security of personal data, especially if you are a director, a manager or an IT professional.

In Once more unto the Breach, Andrea C Simmons provides an insider's view of the role of an information security manager. Based on a typical year, the book examines how the general principles can be applied to all situations and discusses the lessons learnt from a real project. 

This innovative work of fiction demonstrates how ITIL best practice can ensure the success of your IT process implementation projects. Based on real-life up-to-date situations, it offers vital strategies to implement the most important aspects of ITIL into your business and to tailor them to your organization’s particular needs. 

In Availability and Capacity Management in the Cloud: An ITSM narrative, Daniel McLean’s fictional IT service management practitioner, Chris, faces the challenge of integrating cloud services into an ITSM structure. Based on the real-life experience of the author and other ITSM practitioners, this...

This pocket guide helps those who may be lacking in specialist knowledge achieve compliance with the ISO14001 Standard for Environmental Management. The authors, two experienced auditors, are acknowledged experts in the area and have drawn on material from the UK’s Environment Agency. The pocket...

Assessing Information Security deals with the philosophy, strategy and tactics of soliciting, managing and conducting information security audits of all flavours. It will give you the founding principles around information security assessments and why they are important. The book provides a fluid...

Most ISO27001 implementations will involve a Windows® environment at some level. The two approaches to security, however, mean that there is often a knowledge gap between those trying to implement ISO27001 and the IT specialists trying to put the necessary best practice controls in place while using...

Written specifically to help cost-conscious, environmentally-minded organisations, this guide identifies practical and straightforward ways to deploy green initiatives that will directly benefit your organisations bottom line.