| Book Name: | Rational Cybersecurity for Business |
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Rational Cybersecurity for Business
Book Description:
Use the guidance in this comprehensive field guide to gain the support of your top executives to align a rational cybersecurity plan with your business. You will learn how to improve working relationships with stakeholders in complex digital companies, IT, and development environments. You will know how to prioritize your security program and motivate and retain your team.
Misalignment between security and your business can start at the top at the C-suite or the line of business, IT, development, or user level. It has a corrosive effect on any security project it touches. But it does not have to be like this.
Author Dan Blum presents valuable lessons from interviews with over 70 security and business leaders. You will discover how to successfully solve issues related to risk management, operational security, privacy protection, hybrid cloud management, security culture and user awareness, and communication challenges.
This open access book presents six priority areas to maximize your cybersecurity program’s effectiveness: risk management, control baseline, security culture, IT rationalization, access control, and cyber-resilience. Common challenges and good practices are provided for businesses of different types and sizes. And more than 50 specific keys to alignment are included.
What You Will Learn
- Improve your security culture: clarify security-related roles, communicate effectively to businesspeople, and hire, motivate, or retain outstanding security staff by creating a sense of efficacy.
- Develop a consistent accountability model, information risk taxonomy, and risk management framework
- Adopt a security and risk governance model consistent with your business structure or culture, manage policy, and optimize security budgeting within the larger business unit and CIO organization IT spend
- Tailor a control baseline to your organization’s maturity level, regulatory requirements, scale, circumstances, and critical assets
- Help CIOs, Chief Digital Officers, and other executives develop an IT strategy for curating cloud solutions, reducing shadow IT, building up DevSecOps and Disciplined Agile, and more.
- Balance access control and accountability approach, leverage modern digital identity standards to improve digital relationships, and provide data governance and privacy-enhancing capabilities.
- Plan for cyber-resilience: work with the SOC, IT, business groups, and external sources to coordinate incident response and recover from outages and come back stronger
- Integrate your learnings from this book into a quick-hitting rational cybersecurity success plan
Who This Book Is For
Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and other heads of security, security directors and managers, security architects and project leads, and other team members providing security leadership to your business.
About the Author
Daniel Blum is an internationally recognized cybersecurity and risk management strategist. He is a former Golden Quill Award-winning VP, Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, Inc., and has served as the de facto head of security for startups and consulting companies. He’s advised hundreds of corporations, universities, and government organizations and currently partners with top media, analyst firms, and clients to produce cybersecurity thought leadership research and to deliver cybersecurity workshops and coaching for security leaders.
Table of contents :
Front Matter ….Pages i-xxvi
Executive Overview (Dan Blum)….Pages 1-29
Identify and Align Security-Related Roles (Dan Blum)….Pages 31-60
Put the Right Security Governance Model in Place (Dan Blum)….Pages 61-89
Strengthen Security Culture Through Communications and Awareness Programs (Dan Blum)….Pages 91-122
Manage Risk in the Language of Business (Dan Blum)….Pages 123-156
Establish a Control Baseline (Dan Blum)….Pages 157-197
Simplify and Rationalize IT and Security (Dan Blum)….Pages 199-225
Control Access with Minimal Drag on the Business (Dan Blum)….Pages 227-257
Institute Resilience Through Detection, Response, and Recovery (Dan Blum)….Pages 259-295
Create Your Rational Cybersecurity Success Plan (Dan Blum)….Pages 297-313
Back Matter ….Pages 315-333
Rational Cybersecurity for Business: The Security Leaders’ Guide to Business Alignment
Author(s): Dan Blum
Publisher: Apress, Year: 2020
ISBN: 9781484259511
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