Cyber Mayday and the Day After: A Leader's Guide to Preparing, Managing, and Recovering from Inevitable Business Disruptions

by Dan Lohrmann, Shamane Tan

Successfully lead your company through the worst crises with this first-hand look at emergency leadership

Cyber security failures made for splashy headlines in recent years, giving us some of the most spectacular stories of the year. From the Solar Winds hack to the Colonial Pipeline ransomware event, these incidents highlighted the centrality of competent crisis leadership.

Cyber Mayday and the Day After offers readers a roadmap to leading organizations through dramatic emergencies by mining the wisdom of C-level executives from around the globe. It's loaded with interviews with managers and leaders who've been through the crucible and survived to tell the tale.

From former FBI agents to Chief Information Security Officers, these leaders led their companies and agencies through the worst of times and share their hands-on wisdom. In this book, you'll find

What leaders wish they'd known before an emergency and how they've created a crisis game plan for future situations How executive-level media responses can maintain - or shatter - consumer and public trust in your firm How to use communication, coordination, teamwork, and partnerships with vendors and law enforcement to implement your crisis response Cyber Mayday and the Day After is a must-read experience that offers managers, executives, and other current or aspiring leaders a first-hand look at how to lead others through rapidly evolving crises.

226 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 11, 2021

Reviews

[Jacob · Rating 4 out of 5]

The reoccurring neglected theme generally within all intel literature is the inability to connect and convey the problems to the layman. Now more than ever there is a disconnect between what is necessary to maintain a stable and secure state and public perception as to what homeland security and intel personnel actually do. Exposition on the strategic necessities is the key, and the avoidance of getting bogged down in the technical the highly technical, and operational jargon is how the goal of clear communication to the layman is achieved.

Dan does a very reasonable job here of including narrative and story telling in order to demonstrate a profound need for leadership, focus, and preplanning in order to facilitate infrastructural and financial stability in American institutions.

[Kevin Kok-Yew Tan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Crisis management is not just about responses and reactions, but also how organisations and leaders prepare for crises. As the world gets increasingly digital and virtual, the impact of cyber disruptions can be catastrophic. Cyber Mayday incisively brings together the stories and experiences of corporate leaders and experts to discuss the various phases of managing cyber crises.

If you care about your business continuity and survivability in this increasingly networked and digital environment, read this book.

[A.J. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this book had great information for non-cyber leaders. I read this coming from a cyber background and did not get as much CISO-perspective from this book as I expected. But it was good to see the authors highlight what I find as necessary pre-requisites. Build the right team with the right people, take care of them, build relationships with the board, make sure people see you regularly and not just in a disaster, share information with outside entities to help everyone fight ransomware together, and PRACTICE THE INCIDENT RESPONSE PLAN and any other plans.