Cybersecurity Leadership Demystified
A comprehensive guide to becoming a world-class modern cybersecurity leader and global CISO
Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
- 274 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Cybersecurity Leadership Demystified
A comprehensive guide to becoming a world-class modern cybersecurity leader and global CISO
Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
About This Book
Gain useful insights into cybersecurity leadership in a modern-day organization with the help of use cases
Key Features
- Discover tips and expert advice from the leading CISO and author of many cybersecurity books
- Become well-versed with a CISO's day-to-day responsibilities and learn how to perform them with ease
- Understand real-world challenges faced by a CISO and find out the best way to solve them
Book Description
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.
What you will learn
- Understand the key requirements to become a successful CISO
- Explore the cybersecurity landscape and get to grips with end-to-end security operations
- Assimilate compliance standards, governance, and security frameworks
- Find out how to hire the right talent and manage hiring procedures and budget
- Document the approaches and processes for HR, compliance, and related domains
- Familiarize yourself with incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity
- Get the hang of tasks and skills other than hardcore security operations
Who this book is for
This book is for aspiring as well as existing CISOs. This book will also help cybersecurity leaders and security professionals understand leadership in this domain and motivate them to become leaders. A clear understanding of cybersecurity posture and a few years of experience as a cybersecurity professional will help you to get the most out of this book.
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Information
Chapter 1: A CISO's Role in Security Leadership
- Defining a CISO and their responsibilities
- Understanding similarities and differences between a CISO and a chief security officer (CSO)
- Distinguishing between a chief information officer (CIO), a chief technology officer (CTO), and a CISO
- Designing a security leadership role
- Expanding the role of a CISO
- The changing role of a CISO
- How to become a CISO
- Learning about CISO certification
Defining a CISO and their responsibilities
Definition of a CISO
Responsibilities of a CISO
- Determining and establishing the right governance and security practices for the organization
- Creating and enabling a framework that ensures risk-free scalability of business operations
- Helping executives at a C-suite level understand cyber risks
- Evaluating the IT landscape and determining all the necessary factors that affect the security of the organization concerning digital platforms.
- Devising policies that impact the digital landscape affecting the organization's operations.
- Quantifying security risks and determining the level of risk they pose to the organization and taking necessary steps to curb the threat.
- Communicating effectively with the rest of the team regarding any updates and changes to a system as well as during the aftermath of a security breach, to ensure a united front when facing challenges posed by security breaches.
- Recruiting a capable team that is responsible for mitigating threats. As a CISO, it is important to have an informed team that can identify threats and take the necessary action against such threats.
- Keeping updated on the IT landscape to remain informed of evolving threats and the resources to help in mitigation against these threats. Adversaries stand little to no chance against a CISO who invests in studying new threats and is proactive against evolving threats.
- Auditing security measures that have been put in place to safeguard the organization and ensuring that these measures are not only up to date but also capable of protecting the company from security risks and threats.