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Cybersecurity Leadership Demystified

By : Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Cybersecurity Leadership Demystified

By: Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Overview of this book

The chief information security officer (CISO) is responsible for an organization's information and data security. The CISO's role is challenging as it demands a solid technical foundation as well as effective communication skills. This book is for busy cybersecurity leaders and executives looking to gain deep insights into the domains important for becoming a competent cybersecurity leader. The book begins by introducing you to the CISO's role, where you'll learn key definitions, explore the responsibilities involved, and understand how you can become an efficient CISO. You'll then be taken through end-to-end security operations and compliance standards to help you get to grips with the security landscape. In order to be a good leader, you'll need a good team. This book guides you in building your dream team by familiarizing you with HR management, documentation, and stakeholder onboarding. Despite taking all that care, you might still fall prey to cyber attacks; this book will show you how to quickly respond to an incident to help your organization minimize losses, decrease vulnerabilities, and rebuild services and processes. Finally, you'll explore other key CISO skills that'll help you communicate at both senior and operational levels. By the end of this book, you'll have gained a complete understanding of the CISO's role and be ready to advance your career.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Advice for a CISO – by Raif Sarica and Şükrü Durmaz

After a few hours' hot discussion about the best advice to give to a CISO candidate, we ended up with just one simple word: awareness. We believe that creating and maintaining awareness among employees of an organization must be the number-one priority of a CISO. From the top management to the front desk personnel at the entrance of the organization's building, a cybersecurity culture and behavior model against the probable threats or risks to the organization's IT infrastructure must be established because employee awareness is the first and most risky line of defense against cyber threats. Before delving into the details, we especially want to put an emphasis on upper management because most executives think that cybersecurity is the responsibility of IT personnel only, and they are free to do whatever they want on their computers because IT personnel will protect them regardless of their mistakes...