Security, Audit and Leadership Series
About the Book Series
Formerly the Internal Audit and IT Audit series - now rebranded and wider in scope!
The scope and mandate for internal audit continues to evolve each year, as does the complexity of the business environment and speed of the changing risk landscape in which it must operate.
The fundamental goal of this exciting series is to produce leading-edge books on critical subjects facing security and audit executives and practitioners.
Key topics addressed include Leadership, Cybersecurity, Security Leadership, Privacy, Strategic Risk Management, Auditing IT, Audit Management and Leadership, and Operational Auditing.
If you're interested in submitting a proposal for a book to be included in the series, please email [email protected]
Why CISOs Fail
2nd Edition
By Barak Engel
March 07, 2024
Released in 2017, the first edition of Why CISOs Fail reimagined the role of the Chief Information Security Officer in a new and powerful way. Written to be easily consumable by both security pros as well as everyone who must deal with them, the book explores the different realms in which security ...
The Change Agent: Transforming an Underperforming Internal Audit Department
1st Edition
By Hernan Murdock
November 01, 2023
John Taylor has been hired to transform the underperforming internal audit unit at InSports. The auditors are not reviewing what the audit committee and executive leadership consider essential for the organization’s success, their methodology is subpar, and their relationships with their clients ...
Cybersecurity Operations and Fusion Centers: A Comprehensive Guide to SOC and TIC Strategy
1st Edition
By Kevin Lynn McLaughlin
October 19, 2023
Cybersecurity Operations and Fusion Centers: A Comprehensive Guide to SOC and TIC Strategy by Dr. Kevin Lynn McLaughlin is a must-have resource for anyone involved in the establishment and operation of a Cybersecurity Operations and Fusion Center (SOFC). Think of a combination cybersecurity SOC and...
Security Risk Management - The Driving Force for Operational Resilience: The Firefighting Paradox
1st Edition
By Jim Seaman, Michael Gioia
August 31, 2023
The importance of businesses being ‘operationally resilient’ is becoming increasingly important, and a driving force behind whether an organization can ensure that its valuable business operations can ‘bounce back’ from or manage to evade impactful occurrences is its security risk management ...
Controlling Privacy and the Use of Data Assets - Volume 2: What is the New World Currency – Data or Trust?
1st Edition
By Ulf Mattsson
August 24, 2023
The book will review how new and old privacy-preserving techniques can provide practical protection for data in transit, use, and rest. We will position techniques like Data Integrity and Ledger and will provide practical lessons in Data Integrity, Trust, and data’s business utility. Based on a ...
Leading the Digital Workforce: IT Leadership Peak Performance and Agility
1st Edition
By Jeffrey W. Brown
June 19, 2023
Future IT leaders won't be technology leaders, they'll be business leaders who understand technology. Leading the Digital Workforce takes a fresh look at technology leadership, exploring how to lead and manage in today’s digital workplace where the pace of change is exponential. This book walks you...
Cognitive Risk
1st Edition
By James Bone, Jessie H Lee
April 18, 2023
Cognitive Risk is a book about the least understood but most pervasive risk to mankind – human decision-making. Cognitive risks are subconscious and unconscious influence factors on human decision-making: heuristics and biases. To understand the scope of cognitive risk, we look at case studies, ...
Privacy in Practice: Establish and Operationalize a Holistic Data Privacy Program
1st Edition
By Alan Tang
March 01, 2023
Privacy is not just the right to be left alone, but also the right to autonomy, control, and access to your personal data. The employment of new technologies over the last three decades drives personal data to play an increasingly important role in our economies, societies, and everyday lives. ...
Teaching Cybersecurity: A Handbook for Teaching the Cybersecurity Body of Knowledge in a Conventional Classroom
1st Edition
By Daniel Shoemaker, Ken Sigler, Tamara Shoemaker
February 15, 2023
Let’s be realistic here. Ordinary K-12 educators don’t know what "cybersecurity" is and could probably care less about incorporating it into their lesson plans. Yet, teaching cybersecurity is a critical national priority. So, this book aims to cut through the usual roadblocks of confusing technical...
Artificial Intelligence Perspective for Smart Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Vahap Tecim, Sezer Bozkus Kahyaoglu
November 23, 2022
The concept of a "smart city" is used widely in general; however, it is hard to explain because of the complexity and multidimensionality of this notion. However, the essential qualification for being a smart city is to achieve "sustainable social, environmental, and economic development" and boost...
The Auditor’s Guide to Blockchain Technology: Architecture, Use Cases, Security and Assurance
1st Edition
By Shaun Aghili
November 03, 2022
The 21st century has been host to a number of information systems technologies in the areas of science, automotive, aviation and supply chain, among others. But perhaps one of its most disruptive is blockchain technology whose origin dates to only 2008, when an individual (or perhaps a group of ...
CyRM: Mastering the Management of Cybersecurity
1st Edition
By David X Martin
November 01, 2022
Is your enterprise’s strategy for cybersecurity just crossing its fingers and hoping nothing bad ever happens? If so…you’re not alone. Getting cybersecurity right is all too often an afterthought for Fortune 500 firms, bolted on and hopefully creating a secure environment. We all know this approach...