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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)

Learning about supply chain continuity

Supply chain continuity is a subset of BC and is an often-overlooked side of BC. While businesses will look at the internal aspects of their business when assessing levels of risk and creating ways to safeguard their business in case of security incidents, they fail to look at the entire supply chain to determine the risks that emanate from the supply chain and plan for continuity of the supply chain in the case of security incidents. A business needs to invest in resources for the monitoring and evaluation of the entire supply chain for cybersecurity threats that may result from it. After assessing the entire supply chain and determining the cybersecurity threats that the supply chain causes the business, the next step is to prioritize these threats and decide on risks that are tolerable based on a BIA. The lowest risk threats can be tolerated with minimal security resources, while the bigger threats have to be addressed in the supply chain continuity...