Rational Cybersecurity for Business: The Security Leaders' Guide to Business Ali

Description: Rational Cybersecurity for Business by Dan Blum Intermediate user level FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Use the guidance in this comprehensive field guide to gain the support of your top executives for aligning a rational cybersecurity plan with your business. You will learn how to improve working relationships with stakeholders in complex digital businesses, 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 happen at 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 learned 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 focus on to maximize the effectiveness of your cybersecurity program: 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 LearnImprove your security culture: clarify security-related roles, communicate effectively to businesspeople, and hire, motivate, or retain outstanding security staff by creating a sense of efficacyDevelop a consistent accountability model, information risk taxonomy, and risk management frameworkAdopt 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 spendTailor a control baseline to your organizations maturity level, regulatory requirements, scale, circumstances, and critical assetsHelp CIOs, Chief Digital Officers, and other executives to develop an IT strategy for curating cloud solutions and reducing shadow IT, building up DevSecOps and Disciplined Agile, and moreBalance access control and accountability approaches, leverage modern digital identity standards to improve digital relationships, and provide data governance and privacy-enhancing capabilitiesPlan for cyber-resilience: work with the SOC, IT, business groups, and external sources to coordinate incident response and to recover from outages and come back strongerIntegrate 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 Back Cover Use the guidance in this comprehensive field guide to gain the support of your top executives for aligning a rational cybersecurity plan with your business. You will learn how to improve working relationships with stakeholders in complex digital businesses, 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 happen at 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 learned 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 focus on to maximize the effectiveness of your cybersecurity program: 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. You will: 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 organizations maturity level, regulatory requirements, scale, circumstances, and critical assets Help CIOs, Chief Digital Officers, and other executives to develop an IT strategy for curating cloud solutions and reducing shadow IT, building up DevSecOps and Disciplined Agile, and more Balance access control and accountability approaches, 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 to recover from outages and come back stronger Integrate your learnings from this book into a quick-hitting rational cybersecurity success plan Author Biography Dan 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. Hes 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 Chapter 1: Executive Overview.- Chapter 2: Identify and Align Security-Related Roles .- Chapter 3: Put the Right Security Governance Model in Place.- Chapter 4: Strengthen Security Culture through Effective Communications and Awareness Programs.- Chapter 5: Manage Risk in the Language of Business.- Chapter 6: Establish a Control Baseline.- Chapter 7: Simplify and Rationalize IT and Security.- Chapter 8: Control Access with Minimal Drag on the Business.- Chapter 9: Institute Resilience Through Detection, Response, and Recovery.- Chapter 10: Create Your Rational Cybersecurity Success Plan.- Glossary of Terms and Acronyms. Feature The first comprehensive field guide to cybersecurity-business alignment Focuses on six areas to maximize the effectiveness of your cybersecurity program: risk management, control baseline, security culture, IT rationalization, access control, and cyber-resilience Includes more than 50 keys to alignment and advice on how to scale them for businesses of different types and sizes Details ISBN1484259513 Author Dan Blum Short Title Rational Cybersecurity for Business Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 1484259513 ISBN-13 9781484259511 Format Paperback Subtitle The Security Leaders Guide to Business Alignment DOI 10.1007/978-1-4842-5952-8 Pages 333 Publication Date 2020-08-13 DEWEY 658.478 UK Release Date 2020-08-13 Edition 1st Imprint APress Place of Publication Berkley Country of Publication United States Illustrations 102 Illustrations, black and white; XXVI, 333 p. 102 illus. AU Release Date 2020-08-13 NZ Release Date 2020-08-13 US Release Date 2020-08-13 Publisher APress Edition Description 1st ed. Alternative 9781484276419 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:136164975;

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