Understand, Manage, and Measure Cyber Risk

eBook Details:

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: WOW! eBook (December 22, 2021)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1484278208
• ISBN-13: 978-1484278208

eBook Description:

Understand, Manage, and Measure Cyber Risk: Practical Solutions for Creating a Sustainable Cyber Program

When it comes to managing cybersecurity in an organization, most organizations tussle with basic foundational components. This practitioner’s guide lays down those foundational components, with real client examples and pitfalls to avoid.

A plethora of cybersecurity management resources are available many with sound advice, management approaches, and technical solutions but few with one common theme that pulls together management and technology, with a focus on executive oversight. Author Ryan Leirvik helps solve these common problems by providing a clear, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-deploy foundational cyber risk management approach applicable to your entire organization.

• Educate the executives/board on what you are doing to reduce risk
• Communicate the value of cybersecurity programs and investments through insightful risk-informative metrics
• Know your key performance indicators (KPIs), key risk indicators (KRIs), and/or objectives and key results
• Prioritize appropriate resources through identifying program-related gaps
• Lay down the foundational components of a program based on real examples, including pitfalls to avoid

The book provides tools and methods in a straight-forward practical manner to guide the management of your cybersecurity program and helps practitioners pull cyber from a “technical” problem to a “business risk management” problem, equipping you with a simple approach to Understand, Manage, and Measure Cyber Risk for your enterprise.