To take the next step in information security, Adaptive Security Management Architecture provides a comprehensive approach to managing people, process, and technology through the sound application of metrics. This book demonstrates how to develop a balanced strategy for meeting security challenges and enhancing the business in addressing threats and compliance. Describing how the different facets of a secure IT system are related, it integrates IT security with business, using managerial measures of performance such as balanced scorecards and applying business risk analysis. The text also focuses on customer satisfaction to stress the importance of IT as a part of business rather than as a separate entity"--