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Cyber Resilience Index: Mastering Threat-Informed Defense
Paperback
Publisher Price: $54.99
Publisher: Apress
Published: Feb 27 2025
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Imagine quantifying and visualizing your organization's cyber resilience as precisely as a stock market index. This book introduces that reality through the innovative Cyber Resilience Index, a unified metric that helps master threat-informed defense, transform cybersecurity strategy, and achieve efficient and effective threat management and communication.
Through an engaging dialogue between a seasoned CISO Sophia and an innovative security leader Alex, you are taken on a journey from traditional, reactive defense to a proactive, resilience-focused strategy. The book masterfully blends technical depth with strategic insights, explaining the paradigm shift from asset-driven to threat-intelligence-driven security. You will learn how and why compliance is very important, but not enough to be truly cyber resilient; how to construct and leverage interoperable cyber value chains; how to go beyond continuous threat exposure management programs and truly master the threat-informed defense concepts; how to articulate value, and manage your cyber defense through a unified metric (much like traders use stock market charts to make successful trading decisions); and, lastly, what the evolution of cybersecurity leadership looks like ahead.
Whether you're a cybersecurity professional, a subject matter expert (SME), a business leader, a security leader, or an expert in the field looking for battle-tested ways to sharpen or develop your leadership skills, this book provides a new lens through which to view the future of cybersecurity and leadership. Are you ready to reshape the chessboard of cyber defense?
What You Will Learn
- Quantify and visualize your organization's cyber resilience using a unified metric
- Transition from reactive defense to proactive, threat-informed strategy
- Build and optimize interoperable cyber value chains
- Articulate cybersecurity value to boards and executives
- Evolve beyond compliance-driven security to true cyber resilience
- Make data-driven cybersecurity decisions using the Cyber Resilience Index
- Anticipate and counter emerging cyber threats
- Transform your security operations into a well-oiled, efficient machine
- Engage in hands-on experience through practical exercises at the end of each chapter, laying groundwork for mastering threat-informed defense
- Develop essential soft skills for cybersecurity leaders, illustrated through philosophical quotes and real-world experiences
- Communicate strategies crucial for successful cybersecurity transformation
- Obtain leadership skills necessary to drive change in complex organizational environments
- Gain career development insights for SMEs aspiring to become the next generation of cybersecurity leaders
- Measure and manage defenses more efficiently than traditional risk management, and outdated risk matrices and risk registers
- Balance technical expertise with a strategic business mindset in cybersecurity leadership
- Strategize for what lies ahead in the development of the cyber resilience index, namely, integrating AI and machine learning towards the formation of an AI-driven cyber value chain
Who This Book Is For
CISOs and emerging leaders who want to sharpen their strategic edge; technical experts looking to grow into the leadership ladder; board members and executives who need to grasp cybersecurity at a strategic level; IT and security managers searching for fresh, data-driven and threat-informed approaches to fortify their defenses; and consultants who wish to gain cutting-edge insights to elevate their client offerings. Whether you're a veteran in the field, a curious academic, or a student of cybersecurity, this book provides a transformative view on the future of cyber defense, threat management, and cybersecurity leadership.
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