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Selling Information Security to the Board: A Primer

Selling Information Security to the Board - A Primer

SKU: 4748
Authors: Alan Calder
Publishers: IT Governance Ltd
Format: PDF
ISBN13: 9781849288002
Pages: 67
Published: 31 Mar 2016
Availability: Always Available
Format: ePub
ISBN13: 9781849288019
Pages: 67
Published: 31 Mar 2016
Availability: Always Available

This pocket guide will help you with the essential sales skills that, persuade company directors to commit money and resources to your information security initiatives.

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Price: £9.95
Overview

Information technology plays a fundamental role in the operations of any modern business. While the confidentiality and integrity of your organisation's information have to be protected, a business still needs to have this information readily available in order to be able to function from day to day. If you are an information security practitioner, you need to be able to sell complex and often technical solutions to boards and management teams.

Persuading the board to invest in information security measures requires sales skills. As an information security professional, you are a scientific and technical specialist; and yet you need to get your message across to people whose primary interests lie elsewhere, in turnover and overall performance. In other words, you need to develop sales and marketing skills.

This pocket guide will help you with the essential sales skills that persuade company directors to commit money and resources to your information security initiatives.


How this book can help information security professionals:

  • Understand basic sales techniques

    Find out what to do to capture the attention of management and win them over

  • Understand how to present yourself

    Present yourself so that management takes you seriously, and ensure your proposal receives a proper hearing.

  • Find out how to earn management's trust

    This guide shows you how to persuade management that you are the kind of information security professional who is interested in supporting, rather than impeding, business success.

  • Learn how to craft a successful proposal

    This guide offers you invaluable tips on how to write a proposal that will communicate your ideas effectively to senior executives.

About the author

Alan Calder

Alan Calder is the CEO and founder of IT Governance Ltd. He has written widely on IT governance and information security management. This pocket guide is the first in a suite of products to focus on the important subject of making sure you can convince management of information security's importance. A book, a podcast, and more will follow shortly.

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