Netspionage: The Global Threat to Information

The threat is real. Make sure your boss and CIO read this book, tonight!!

In Netspionage: The Global Threat To Information, William Boni and Gerald Kovacich draw upon there many years of professional experience in corporate security and intelligence to describe and address Internet-based threats to information security. Very highly recommended, essential reading for anyone charged with corporate, government, or personal information security in this age of cyberspace hackers, terrorists, and espionage, Netspionage is a very practical and experience-based guide to the evolution of information collection and how to best protect and secure information from unwarranted and criminal attempts to access and corrupt corporate records, databases, projects, and trade secrets.

This book serves as a primer for network espionage identification, control and a future studies. MBA and MIS students should see this on their required reading lists. This is not a technical book with over 2000 pages of source code, or a hacker novel. Yet through case studies and a demonstration of traditional intelligence gathering techniques (ethical and not) Boni and Kovacich prepare us to look into the future, and the present to protect our information assets.

Its impossible to mitigate threat if you can't first identify and articulate it to corporate leadership. This book by Bill Boni and Jerry Kovacich serves that function well and should earn a place on the bookshelves of all those involved in driving e-commerce as well as those responsible for computer network defense. Read it, use it to understand adversary threat (whether it be economic, industrial or military), understand its message, and learn from the real-world case studies.

"Netspionage" or network enabled espionage as the authors defined this term is considering the competitive intelligence gathering and the various forms of espionage. "Netspionage" is a comprehensive coverage of a very important topic that worried many people of all sorts for years. It describes how technology has changed the rules of the game radically, and how both parties (information gathers and law enforcement authorities) use technology in this field. It also describes how criminals are adapting their techniques to the technical world while chasing the information , either on behalf of governments or international enterprises. Unlike most security books, this one is written for managers and executives in a very easy and clear language, since they are the ones who must take a leadership role in safeguarding the information assets of the networked enterprise. This book is giving a threat "awareness briefing" for managers and executives. It provides an easy to read and understand look at the competitive global business and information driven environment in which corporations must operate; as well as who is doing what to whom and why. Any one who is doing business in the global marketplace will need this book if he wants to gain or maintain a competitive edge. I read more than one book for the authors of this book (especially Dr. Kovacich), and I admire the way these books are organised and the language used. I recommend it with no conservation.