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Great book about a great security methodology.......2003-12-02
OCTAVE--which stands for Operationally Critical Threat, Asset and Vulnerability Evaluation--is a methodology for independent information-security risk evaluations. An outgrowth of the Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie Mellon University, OCTAVE attempts to help organizations balance the risks of information systems with the business need to deploy these systems. This book is a solid explanation of OCTAVE.
The authors detail the methods to implement OCTAVE, create threat profiles, conduct a risk analysis, develop strategy, and so on. All steps to ensure that risk is adequately addressed are presented.
Most useful for the practitioner are the book's numerous case studies and worksheets and its catalog of the eight OCTAVE processes. A caveat: it is unwise to fill out the worksheets without first reading the book. Doing OCTAVE right means no shortcuts. Also, the reader shouldn't think that this approach can be implemented by a single person in a few days.
In sum, while the prose doesn't exactly sing, it does strike the appropriate tone for this excellent presentation on OCTAVE.
Detailed intro to SEI's CERT/CC OCTAVE method.......2002-07-28
The OCTAVE approach is an effective and proven approach to security risk management, and this book distills the documentation that is available from SEI's CERT/CC group into a succinct, clearly written description of OCTAVE and associated processes.
OCTAVE stands for "Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability Evaluation", which focuses specifically on business or organizational critical success factors and operational postures. This differs slightly from traditional vulnerability assessments, which are wider in scope, and auditing, which is based on policies and due diligence. While there seems to be little distinction on the surface, as you read this book you discover that OCTAVE's focus and philosophy is akin to Pareto analysis in that you narrow the scope to business success and operational factors.
The book is divided into three main parts:
I - Introduction (introduces OCTAVE and describes the basics).
II - OCTAVE Method (explains the method, how to identify organizational knowledge, create threat profiles, identify key components, select components for evaluation, conduct a risk analysis, develop and select a strategy).
III - Variations and tailoring strategies.
In addition to the main sections the appendices are valuable. They include case studies, worksheets and a catalog of the eight OCTAVE processes.
Note that OCTAVE is intended for organizations in excess of 300 people, although OCTAVE-S (briefly covered in Part III) is a scaled down version of the main approach. There is also a version of OCTAVE that addresses outsourcing, but was skimmed over very quickly in the book.
The book is an excellent guide to OCTAVE, and, in my opinion, OCTAVE itself is a viable approach to information security risk management.
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Many of us consider ourselves fairly knowledgeable about stock and fund investment options, but then maintain some sort of vague money-in-a-sock vision of the money we deposit in our bank accounts. While the notion that it physically sits in the bank's drawers is obviously ludicrous, determining what actually happens to the money seems impossible in our age of split-second electronic transfers and a complicated global economy. In Money Makes the World Go Round however, Barbara Garson has done just that, tracking a one-time deposit on its dizzying journey around the world.
Using half her publisher's advance for this book, Garson deposits $29,500 in a small, family-owned bank in Millbrook, New York. Putting her intrepid journalistic sensibilities to work, Garson then attempts to follow the money as it's put to use, flowing out of her small bank, through much larger ones, and in and out of the accounts and pockets of companies and their employees in the U.S. and Asia. She tracks down players on all levels of this green path--from a senior vice president on Chase's Federal Funds desk to a seafood importer in Brooklyn, and from the head honcho of a Japanese construction firm building an oil refinery in Thailand to a jellyfish exporter in Malaysia--and tells their stories in vivid, colorful detail. Doing more than just stating that the lives of many are affected by the actions of a few, Garson interviews people at the farthest reaches of her money's journey, like fishermen in a small Malay village, a Burmese pipe fitter working illegally in Thailand, and Filipino maids in Singapore. She explores the consequences of a mutual fund investment in a similar manner, taking one of the fund's investments, Sunbeam, and following "Chainsaw Al" Dunlop's restructuring of the company from the top (shareholders) to the bottom (workers at a furniture plant in Tennessee).
Garson, author of All the Livelong Day and The Electronic Sweatshop, is a lively and engaging writer. She appears to hold little interest in the value of her deposit for herself, but is oozing with curiosity about what money can and can't do for its lenders, borrowers, makers, and users around the world. While she tends to go into excruciating detail in relaying the circuitous routes she takes to get to the right people and the conversations she has with them (even recording the phone conversations they have while she is with them), this very detail serves to remind the reader of the convoluted pathways down which her money travels. An intriguing narrative on a subject we usually only think of in numbers. --S. Ketchum
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With the same fresh and fearless inquisitiveness that characterized her classic workplace history, All the Livelong Day, Barbara Garson takes on the marketplace of money. Her quest: to find out who wins and who loses in a world united by the free flow of capital. In a hilarious and instructive tour of the global economy Garson deposits her Viking book advance in a one-branch, small-town bank and in an aggressive mutual fund. From those points of departure, she tracks her money's every stop, talking to the people who touch, use, or are touched by it. Her conversations with Wall Street bankers, Chinese labor contractors and Texas oil company treasurers-all of whom get a piece of her investment-transform our understanding of money. Money Makes the World Go Around is a classic-headed for the same shelf as the new economy works of Michael Moore and Michael Lewis.
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Thoughtful and easy to read .......2006-01-20
Barbara Garson's look at globalization manages to be thoughtful and breezy at the same time. Garson, a leftwing activist and writer, decided to follow her own money - specifically, her book advance - as it coursed through the global economy from a small-town bank to mighty Chase Manhattan and points beyond. Her odyssey took her to a rowdy shareholder meeting in New York to an oil project in Thailand to small towns in America devastated by corporate "restructurings.'' Although she has a clear political point of view, she is unfailingly open-minded and fair about the people she meets and writes about - with the possible and understandable exception of "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap. Her writing is more nuanced than her just-folks style sometimes suggests. She gently hints at the claustrophobic atmosphere in small town America by describing the demise of a pizzeria that failed to do business with the local bank (a bank she otherwise writes about with considerable warmth). Garson also has a gift for explaining complicated stuff. I was especially enlightened by her account of the origins of Eurodollars and her description of how oil refining works. Sometimes her loosey-goosey style can get annoying. I occasionally wished she'd be more specific, especially on financial terms. Several times she referred to 20% profits without saying what she meant - return on equity? Increase in stock price? Something to do with dividends? Garson's call for a more humane form of globalization is hard to argue with - though the specifics are debatable. For this reader (of somewhat confused politics) one conclusion emerged crystal clear from Garson's description of working poor parents scrimping on medical treatment for themselves and their kids: America's refusal to enact universal health coverage is shameful and wrong.
Very nice book for people whit alot of time.......2005-10-20
I bougth this book thinking iwill find some quick answers about the money but the only thing i found was that this book is for people who has a lot of time or people in vacation who want to read something about the money in a nice story, but if you are the people that want quickly answers about the money, i recommend to you a book named ECONOMIC EXPLAINED Autor: Rober Heilbroner and Lester Thurow.
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Where do you think the book advanced payment coming from? THe book only tells half of the story.
Highly Recommended!.......2003-03-06
Some books set out to accomplish the impossible and come admirably close. Barbara Garson's volume is a prime example. Can you deposit money in a little rural bank and really trace its spread across the global monetary system? How do you know that a multi-million dollar loan to, say, shrimp exporters in Thailand, really has anything to do with the actual dollars you deposited? But that's not the point of this book. The author embarks on a whirlwind, worldwide tour of the global financial juggernaut, and shows how money falls like a drop in a pond and emits waves of disruption that seemingly spread out forever. Garson concludes that deregulation needs to be reigned in, a reasonable anticipation of the Enron mess. We from getAbstract highly recommend her book to business people and consumers who want a better feel for what the "global economic order" is all about, why people are protesting at each meeting of the WTO and whether you should be steamed as well.
A book on investing that connects the head to the heart.......2002-03-13
As a fairly intelligent individual who has never taken an economics course, I've been trying to make sense of the world of investing on my own. The author takes us on her own journey to do the same, and in the process we come to meet the faces and the people behind the whole process. She goes about it with a very open-minded, down to earth approach, and for the most part, doesn't draw a lot of her own conclusions. Rather, she lets you come to your own. At last, some information on investing that is more than just numbers and returns. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is looking for where to invest their money, or is just trying to understand how "money makes the world go around." After having read the book, now I can go to the Reuters newswires and have an understanding of just what is behind the latest news announcements, what they mean in real terms for real people. The book has made me think twice about what it means to be chasing the high returns, and what implications that may have on the lives of others. I found this book to be very heart opening, and my compassion for the world is immense.
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Capital Controls in Emerging Economies (Political Economy of Global Interdependence)
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In this challenging volume, distinguished economists evaluate capital control and capital account liberalization choices facing policymakers in emerging market economies. These issues are explored within the context of economic efficiency, economic structure, and political consequences. Critically assessing traditional positions on the timing and degree of liberalization of trade and capital flows, the contributors also consider newer arguments from the fields of public choice, financial economics, and industrial organizations.
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Central Banking, Crises, and Global Economy
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Bridging a gap between economic theory and observed reality, this book examines the most visible central banks, the move to monetary union in Europe, the IMF's new role, the rise of managed market economies, and the elevated importance of central banks. In central banking, attention has often turned to the management of liquidity crises and the attainment of economic stability. In the global economy, the respective market economies are more interconnected, and information regarding crises in one part of the industrialized world is rapidly communicated to other nations, giving the crises themselves a more immediate impact. The Asian debt and liquidity crises of 1997-98 were seen as having an impact on the United States, the European Union countries, and even China. In the effort to attain international stability, the information emanating from central banks at a policy level is crucial. This book aims to depict an ideal central bank for a globally connected country. Two developments heighten the need for such an operations/policy-based ideal: the lessons learned from the European moves to monetary union and the establishment of the European Central Bank, and the increased awareness of banking problems in Asia during the 1997-98 debt and liquidity crises. This timely work will be of interest to economists, bank officials, government policy makers and political scientists.
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We eavesdrop on a game of checkers where a convoluted jumping sequence has been set up and the action is about to begin..... We let the first player make his move; his jumps - and therefore acquires a bunch of his opponent's checkers. We let the second player make his retaliatory move; he jumps - and therefore acquires a bunch of his opponent's checkers. They each savor the results for a moment, then one of them puts the situation into words: "I love this game because everybody wins. You took more checkers than me and I took more checkers than you..." In checkers, we can see the stupidity; in economics we cannot. But all that must change if we expect any semblance of a reasonably non-violent future. The basic problem is that we don't make money, we acquire money and, regardless of any obfuscating detours though our intertwined businesses and/or our multifariuos levels of government - we acquire it only from each other. Read this book. But let there be absolutely no misunderstanding, it is bitter bitter medicine. You won't like what you read; you won't believe what you read; but your children need you to read it.
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Exchange-Rate Policies for Emerging Market Economies (Political Economy of Global Interdependence)
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With the loss of Soviet control in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the move toward economic liberalization in many developing countries, a huge increase in the number of convertible currencies in the world has occurred. A key aspect of the management of these currencies involves their relationships with the world economy, which is determined partly by type of exchange rate. Contributors to this volume argue that the costs and benefits of fixed versus flexible rates vary systematically across different types of economies
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Global Capital, National State and the Politics of Money
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The contributors to this book argue that the practical importance of monetarism and neo-liberalism in general derived not from its coherence as a doctrine but from the change in the relationship between states and international money.
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Global Money, Capital Restructuring and the Changing Patterns of Labour
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Serial Killer Cinema: An Analytical Filmography With an Introduction
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The release of Silence of the Lambs in 1991, which swept the major Academy Awards categories, legitimized the serial killer movie, a genre that dates back as far as the silent era. From Absence of the Good to Zodiac Killer, this reference work allows a detailed study of the development of the serial killer film as a distinct genre with its own character types, narrative patterns and styles. An introduction outlines the historical evolution of this film genre and covers the whole range of cinematic interpretations from the response to Jack the Ripper and other real life serial killers through the late 1960s to the current state of the genre.
Arranged alphabetically by title, the filmography covers over 500 feature films and select television movies. Each entry contains a listing of the film's main credits, a synopsis of the film, a summary of the film's respective merits and a discussion of how they fit into the themes and structures outlined in the introduction. Only films that portray the serial killer as a repeat, pattern killer, and directly or by suggestion reveal the killer's aberrant sexual motivations or their craving for manipulation, domination, and control (with subsequent desires to punish women or society) are included.
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Homicide : a bibliography
Bal K Jerath
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Homicide represents the result of an exhaustive search of the world literature regarding homicide. More than 7,000 entries have been compiled from references selected from major indexes in libraries from outstanding universities, government agencies, and military posts; science libraries; law libraries; and the Library of Congress. Each entry features a one- or two-word annotation that indicates whether it is an article or a book, and all entries conform to the American Psychological Association stylebook guidelines. Key-word and author indexes provide quick access to works pertaining to particular subjects or by a certain author.
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Homicide: A Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in Sociology)
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This bibliography lists references to homicide published in scientific literature through 1984. The entries are arranged alphabetically, and they cover every aspect of the subject, including statistics, demographics, theories, and legal implications. Abel's introduction outlines the work that has been done in the field of homicide. He outlines the various explanations of homicide and briefly discusses the problems involved in deterrence. A subject index completes the volume.
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Criminal and Non-Criminal Homicide: Medical Guide-Book for Research and Reference
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