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CISO COMPASS: Navigating Cybersecurity Leadership Challenges with Insights from Pioneers
#1 Best Selling Information Security Book by Taylor & Francis in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022!
2020 Cybersecurity CANON Hall of Fame Winner!
Todd Fitzgerald, co-author of the ground-breaking (ISC) 2 CISO Essential Principles for Success, Information Security Governance From the Boardroom to the Keyboard, co-author for the E-C Council CISO Body of Knowledge, and contributor to many others including Official (ISC) 2 Guide to the CISSP CBK , COBIT 5 for Information Security, and ISACA CSX Cybersecurity Fundamental Certification, is back with this new book incorporating practical experience in leading, building, and sustaining an information security/cybersecurity program.
CISO COMPASS includes personal, pragmatic perspectives and lessons learned of over 75 award-winning CISOs, security leaders, professional association leaders, and cybersecurity standard setters who have fought the tough battle. Todd has also, for the first time, adapted the McKinsey 7S framework (strategy, structure, systems, shared values, staff, skills and style) for organizational effectiveness to the practice of leading cybersecurity to structure the content to ensure comprehensive coverage by the CISO and security leaders to key issues impacting the delivery of the cybersecurity strategy and demonstrate to the Board of Directors due diligence. The insights will assist the security leader to create programs appreciated and supported by the organization, capable of industry/ peer award-winning recognition, enhance cybersecurity maturity, gain confidence by senior management, and avoid pitfalls.
The book is a comprehensive, soup-to-nuts book enabling security leaders to effectively protect information assets and build award-winning programs by covering topics such as developing cybersecurity strategy, emerging trends and technologies, cybersecurity organization structure and reporting models, leveraging current incidents, security control frameworks, risk management, laws and regulations, data protection and privacy, meaningful policies and procedures, multi-generational workforce team dynamics, soft skills, and communicating with the Board of Directors and executive management. The book is valuable to current and future security leaders as a valuable resource and an integral part of any college program for information/ cybersecurity.
2020 Cybersecurity CANON Hall of Fame Winner!
Todd Fitzgerald, co-author of the ground-breaking (ISC) 2 CISO Essential Principles for Success, Information Security Governance From the Boardroom to the Keyboard, co-author for the E-C Council CISO Body of Knowledge, and contributor to many others including Official (ISC) 2 Guide to the CISSP CBK , COBIT 5 for Information Security, and ISACA CSX Cybersecurity Fundamental Certification, is back with this new book incorporating practical experience in leading, building, and sustaining an information security/cybersecurity program.
CISO COMPASS includes personal, pragmatic perspectives and lessons learned of over 75 award-winning CISOs, security leaders, professional association leaders, and cybersecurity standard setters who have fought the tough battle. Todd has also, for the first time, adapted the McKinsey 7S framework (strategy, structure, systems, shared values, staff, skills and style) for organizational effectiveness to the practice of leading cybersecurity to structure the content to ensure comprehensive coverage by the CISO and security leaders to key issues impacting the delivery of the cybersecurity strategy and demonstrate to the Board of Directors due diligence. The insights will assist the security leader to create programs appreciated and supported by the organization, capable of industry/ peer award-winning recognition, enhance cybersecurity maturity, gain confidence by senior management, and avoid pitfalls.
The book is a comprehensive, soup-to-nuts book enabling security leaders to effectively protect information assets and build award-winning programs by covering topics such as developing cybersecurity strategy, emerging trends and technologies, cybersecurity organization structure and reporting models, leveraging current incidents, security control frameworks, risk management, laws and regulations, data protection and privacy, meaningful policies and procedures, multi-generational workforce team dynamics, soft skills, and communicating with the Board of Directors and executive management. The book is valuable to current and future security leaders as a valuable resource and an integral part of any college program for information/ cybersecurity.
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Published December 7, 2018
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August 3, 2020
Why learn from just one person when you can learn from a hundred? In “CISO Compass, Navigating Cybersecurity Leadership Challenges with Insights from Pioneers,” author Todd Fitzgerald has compiled a book that covers almost every subject and leverages various great minds within the cybersecurity field. This book includes insights from many of the top leaders and experts in the security industry across a wide variety of important topics to cybersecurity professionals including the CISO’s role, cybersecurity strategy and structure, emerging technology trends, security control frameworks, laws and regulations, security policies, data protection and CISO soft skills.
Fitzgerald, an award-winning CISO himself, provides material to prepare both cybersecurity newcomers and experienced professionals in all aspects of the profession.
“CISO Compass” starts with a bold promise: You will learn something. Cybersecurity professionals should always be learning and growing. While it’s a bold statement, it’s also true. To reach your destination, you need to know where you are, where you’ve been and where you’re going. In the first section of “CISO Compass,” Fitzgerald provides a history of the CISO role and ideas on where it’s going. He leverages the McKinsey “7-S Framework” (Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared values, Staff, Skills and Style) to explain the relationship between organizational effectiveness and cybersecurity leadership.
The wide variety of topics covered in this book, along with the combined wisdom from leading cybersecurity professionals, makes “CISO Compass” a valuable resource on any cybersecurity professional’s bookshelf. Each chapter contains great ideas from both the author and industry leaders. There are a multitude of references sprinkled throughout and compiled at the end of each chapter, pointing readers toward where to go for continued learning. By paying attention to each of the topics, references and industry leaders contained in this book, you will leave with nuggets of wisdom applicable in your personal and business lives, with the hope of reducing risks to all. Both the breadth and depth of this book make it a must-have for all cybersecurity professionals.
Pick it up and see if it isn’t true.
Fitzgerald, an award-winning CISO himself, provides material to prepare both cybersecurity newcomers and experienced professionals in all aspects of the profession.
“CISO Compass” starts with a bold promise: You will learn something. Cybersecurity professionals should always be learning and growing. While it’s a bold statement, it’s also true. To reach your destination, you need to know where you are, where you’ve been and where you’re going. In the first section of “CISO Compass,” Fitzgerald provides a history of the CISO role and ideas on where it’s going. He leverages the McKinsey “7-S Framework” (Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared values, Staff, Skills and Style) to explain the relationship between organizational effectiveness and cybersecurity leadership.
The wide variety of topics covered in this book, along with the combined wisdom from leading cybersecurity professionals, makes “CISO Compass” a valuable resource on any cybersecurity professional’s bookshelf. Each chapter contains great ideas from both the author and industry leaders. There are a multitude of references sprinkled throughout and compiled at the end of each chapter, pointing readers toward where to go for continued learning. By paying attention to each of the topics, references and industry leaders contained in this book, you will leave with nuggets of wisdom applicable in your personal and business lives, with the hope of reducing risks to all. Both the breadth and depth of this book make it a must-have for all cybersecurity professionals.
Pick it up and see if it isn’t true.
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