Visible Ops Security builds upon the methodology presented in the original Visible Ops Handbook. It guides information security professionals in strenthening relationships with IT operations and development groups to advance IT objectives and business goals. It addresses the people side of IT, empowering security to work with operations teams to achieve closely aligned objectives and with development and release teams to integrate security requirements into preproduction work.
Gene Kim is a multiple award-winning CTO, Tripwire founder, Visible Ops co-author, IT Ops/Security Researcher, Theory of Constraints Jonah, a certified IS auditor and a rabid UX fan.
He is passionate about IT operations, security and compliance, and how IT organizations successfully transform from "good to great."
I thought that this was an okay read, but about 60% of the content was a rote rehash of the much more generally applicable The Visible Ops Handbook. With this book smaller than a lot of coffee table books, that doesn't leave a whole lot of content for the money. Worth borrowing, not worth buying.
Like the other Visible Ops books, its strength lies in the distillation of complex information to a set of essentials well suited to a management audience. These books can be used to guide processes towards functional implementations of ITIL and a healthier service orientation.