It is often assumed that IT viruses and hackers should be an organization's biggest concern. The reality is that it is your own staff, whether maliciously or accidentally, that are the most common cause of a security breach. Research continually shows the greatest volume of security breaches comes from ignorant or careless user actions that inadvertently cause security breaches. Today's reality is that there are proactive steps to mitigate the risks from both malicious and careless users. Above all, Waiting Out the Insiders: Controlling Access to Improve Organizational Security is practical. It will assist you in taking action to improve your organization's security policies and procedures as well as to implement a wide range of appropriate security measures. Walling Out the Insiders is grounded in the reality that many, if not-most organizations, have limited security budgets and security personnel. Walling Out the Insiders, Explains security planning and management strategies in a manner that can be understood by security professionals as well as non-security managers and executives, Provides long-term security design, implementation, and management methods to guide managers through the long process of achieving improved security, Presents practical advice on how to determine security weaknesses and security needs and how to select security vendors and service providers, Walling Out the Insiders provides a self-assessment method for the state of security in an organization along with several other self-assessment lists. These straight-forward and easy-to-use assessment tools and self-assessment questions will help you determine the perception of security and to determine how well key employees think your organization is managing security. Book jacket.