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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)

Understanding IT compliance and the CISO's role

IT compliance is tasked to CISO executives in a company. They need to ensure that their company is compliant with all the necessary laws, including those listed in this chapter, that govern companies in their jurisdiction. For instance, the PIPEDA laws are Canadian laws that affect all organizations that target Canadian people's information, regardless of where the companies are located. This means that if you sell products to people in Canada or Canadian people can come to your online business and need to provide the business with their personal information, then the PIPEDA laws will apply to the business as well. GDPR works similarly. It is meant to protect EU citizens, regardless of where the business seeking their information is located.

As a CISO executive, it is important to understand the demographics of the business and understand all the laws that apply and that could affect the business, as well as ensure that...