This book. 1. Provides innovative insights into more effective security risk management practices. Rather than being a reactive practice, this book will explain how security risk management can be implemented proactively for the improved benefits of the organization, ensuring proportionality, visibility and business-aligned risk decisions. 2. Describes the benefits of focusing security risk management ahead of security and compliance efforts. This book explains how effective security risk management can enhance an organization’s security and compliance obligations. 3. Applies lessons-learned from the authors’ experiences with security risk management. Real-life examples will demonstrate mistakes that are commonly made and provide insights into how these can be avoided, for the benefit of the organization. 4. Details how security risk management should be implemented and managed as a team effort. Providing insights into the value of delegated risk management, using a team approach. 5. Provides insights into the business value of effective security risk management and its importance in helping to reduce impactful events. Gain an understanding of how effective security risk management can be used to reduce the likelihood of an impactful event and to help you better prepare for such events, improving capabilities to survive to operate and reduce the potential impact on the organization.

This book. 1. Provides innovative insights into more effective security risk management practices. Rather than being a reactive practice, this book will explain how security risk management can be implemented proactively for the improved benefits of the organization, ensuring proportionality, visibility and business-aligned risk decisions. 2. Describes the benefits of focusing security risk management ahead of security and compliance efforts. This book explains how effective security risk management can enhance an organization’s security and compliance obligations. 3. Applies lessons-learned from the authors’ experiences with security risk management. Real-life examples will demonstrate mistakes that are commonly made and provide insights into how these can be avoided, for the benefit of the organization. 4. Details how security risk management should be implemented and managed as a team effort. Providing insights into the value of delegated risk management, using a team approach. 5. Provides insights into the business value of effective security risk management and its importance in helping to reduce impactful events. Gain an understanding of how effective security risk management can be used to reduce the likelihood of an impactful event and to help you better prepare for such events, improving capabilities to survive to operate and reduce the potential impact on the organization.

This book shows you how military counter-intelligence principles and objectives are applied. It provides you with valuable advice and guidance to help your business understand threat vectors and the measures needed to reduce the risks and impacts to your organization. You will know how business-critical assets are compromised: cyberattack, data breach, system outage, pandemic, natural disaster, and many more. Rather than being compliance-concentric, this book focuses on how your business can identify the assets that are most valuable to your organization and the threat vectors associated with these assets. You will learn how to apply appropriate mitigation controls to reduce the risks within suitable tolerances. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of the value that effective protective security provides and how to develop an effective strategy for your type of business. What You Will Learn Take a deep dive into legal and regulatory perspectives and how an effective protective security strategy can help fulfill these ever-changing requirements Know where compliance fits into a company-wide protective security strategy Secure your digital footprint Build effective 5 D network architectures: Defend, detect, delay, disrupt, deter Secure manufacturing environments to balance a minimal impact on productivity Securing your supply chains and the measures needed to ensure that risks are minimized Who This Book Is For Business owners, C-suite, information security practitioners, CISOs, cybersecurity practitioners, risk managers, IT operations managers, IT auditors, and military enthusiasts

Gain a broad understanding of how PCI DSS is structured and obtain a high-level view of the contents and context of each of the 12 top-level requirements. The guidance provided in this book will help you effectively apply PCI DSS in your business environments, enhance your payment card defensive posture, and reduce the opportunities for criminals to compromise your network or steal sensitive data assets. Businesses are seeing an increased volume of data breaches, where an opportunist attacker from outside the business or a disaffected employee successfully exploits poor company practices. Rather than being a regurgitation of the PCI DSS controls, this book aims to help you balance the needs of running your business with the value of implementing PCI DSS for the protection of consumer payment card data. Applying lessons learned from history, military experiences (including multiple deployments into hostile areas), numerous PCI QSA assignments, and corporate cybersecurity and InfoSec roles, author Jim Seaman helps you understand the complexities of the payment card industry data security standard as you protect cardholder data. You will learn how to align the standard with your business IT systems or operations that store, process, and/or transmit sensitive data. This book will help you develop a business cybersecurity and InfoSec strategy through the correct interpretation, implementation, and maintenance of PCI DSS. What You Will Learn Be aware of recent data privacy regulatory changes and the release of PCI DSS v4.0 Improve the defense of consumer payment card data to safeguard the reputation of your business and make it more difficult for criminals to breach security Be familiar with the goals and requirements related to the structure and interdependencies of PCI DSS Know the potential avenues of attack associated with business payment operations Make PCI DSS an integral component of your business operations Understand the benefits of enhancing your security culture See how the implementation of PCI DSS causes a positive ripple effect across your business Who This Book Is For Business leaders, information security (InfoSec) practitioners, chief information security managers, cybersecurity practitioners, risk managers, IT operations managers, business owners, military enthusiasts, and IT auditors