The Information Systems Security Officer s Guide - Establishing and Managing an Information Protection Program, Second Edition


Dr. Gerald L. Kovacich


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To my son James, and daughters Leann and Christy:

May the world of your generations be a better place;

And may you do your part to make it so.

About the Author

Dr. Gerald L. Kovacich graduated from the University of Maryland with a bachelor's degree in history and politics, with emphasis in Asia; the University of Northern Colorado with a master's degree in social science with emphasis in public administration; Golden Gate University with a master's degree in telecommunications management; the DOD Language Institute (Chinese Mandarin); and August Vollmer University with a doctorate degree in criminology. He was also a Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Protection Professional, and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Dr. Kovacich has over 40 years of industrial security, investigations, information systems security, and information warfare experience in both the U.S. government as a special agent and business as a technologist and manager for numerous technology-based, international corporations as an ISSO, security, audit and investigations manager, and consultant to United States and foreign government agencies and corporations. He has also developed and managed several internationally based InfoSec programs for Fortune 500 corporations; and managed several information systems security organizations, including providing service and support for their information warfare products and services.

Dr. Kovacich has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in criminal justice, technology crimes investigations, and security for Los Angeles City College, DeAnza College, Golden Gate University, and August Vollmer University. He has also lectured internationally and presented workshops on these topics for national and international conferences, as well as writing numerous published articles on high-tech crime investigations, information systems security, and information warfare, both nationally and internationally. He has written more than 100 security-related articles that have been published in various international magazines.

Dr. Kovacich currently spends his time on Whidbey Island, Washington. He continues to conduct research, write, consult, and lecture internationally on such topics as:

  • Global and nation-state information systems security;

  • Corporate information systems security;

  • Corporate and government fraud;

  • Corporate security;

  • High-tech crime investigations;

  • Information assurance;

  • Proprietary information protection;

  • Espionage, including Netspionage, economic, and industrial; and

  • Information warfare—offensive and defensive.

He is also the founder of ShockwaveWriters.Com, an informal association of writers, researchers, and lecturers who concentrate on these topics.

Acknowledgments (Second Edition)

To carry out a project such as this, it takes more than just the author. It takes friends, professional associates, and others who unselfishly give of their time and effort to help make my writing life easier and my books worth publishing.

To Chiang Hsiao-yun, researcher, analyst, critic, and wife who always provides support and who has had the patience of a saint for over 28 years.

I am also very grateful to a special group who has helped me over the years and again with such projects as this, including the following friends, associates, and colleagues:

  • Motomu Akashi, my mentor and great sage;

  • Bill Boni, a great coauthor and master of the management game we all must play in the profession, and now a Motorola Vice President for InfoSec;

  • Don Evans, the "workhorse" of ISSA, and an InfoSec guru who is always ready to help;

  • Ed Halibozek, security management guru of Northrop Grumman Corporation;

  • Andy Jones, InfoSec and InfoWar professional now turned professor;

  • Steve Lutz, global InfoSec consultant guru;

  • John Quinn, master of the game of information collection, and unofficial book agent; and Winn Schwartau, a guy who has never been given the credit that he deserves for getting government and business folks thinking outside the bureaucratic box—the "Phoenix" of the trade.

To the staff and ISSO-2 project team of Butterworth-Heinemann of Mark Listewnik, Chris Nolin, Jennifer Rhuda, Kevin Sullivan, Julio Esperas, and Troy Lilly, thanks for the time, effort, and support in making ISSO-2, and my other BH books, a reality. Without your support and guidance this book truly could not have been written.




The Information Systems Security Officer's Guide. Establishing and Managing an Information Protection Program
The Information Systems Security Officers Guide: Establishing and Managing an Information Protection Program
ISBN: 0750698969
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 204

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