The Business of Cyber

Why You Should Question What Your Security Team Are Telling You

Peter Fagan

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781032462868
• eBook ISBN:
  9781003845447
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Development
• Index: Business

This book examines the cybersecurity phenomenon, looking at the folklore, the hype, and the behaviour of its practitioners. A central theme is that the management of cybersecurity needs to be owned by the people running the organisation, rather than by the cybersecurity team, who frequently don't have management as a core skill. In order to effect that change, managers need to have the background and detail to challenge what they are being told, enabling them to engage in a way that will result in more appropriate outcomes for the business. This book provides that background and detail. It debunks a number of cyber-myths, and calls out basic errors in the accepted thinking on cyber. The content is strongly rooted in available research and presented in an accessible manner, with a number of business-related case studies. Each chapter in the book takes a theme such as end-user behaviours and compares the available evidence with what the industry would like to have its customers believe. The conclusion is that there is definitely a problem, and we certainly need cyber defences. Just not the ones the industry is currently selling.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• About the Author
• 1 The Current and Future State of Cyber
• 2 Security Culture Will Fix Things
• 3 If Only Users Would “Get It”
• 4 Security = Confidentiality + Integrity + Availability
• 5 Security Is Best Done with Numbers
• 6 Security Is Treated as a Business Issue
• 7 The Enforcement of Compliance
• 8 Aggregated Case Studies
• 9 Summary and Future Work
• Index