Security, Audit and Leadership Series
About the Book Series
The scope and mandate for cybersecurity and 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 and Technology, and Audit Management and Leadership.
If you're interested in submitting a proposal for a book to be included in the series, please email the series editor, Dan Swanson: [email protected]
The Expert in the Next Office: Tools for Managing Operations and Security in the Era of Cyberspace
1st Edition
By M. E. Kabay
July 24, 2024
As organizations increasingly depend on electronic information, the lack of systematic training on effective operations and security principles is causing chaos. Stories of data loss, data corruption, fraud, interruptions of service, and poor system design continue to flood our news. This book ...
The Shortest Hour: An Applied Approach to Boardroom Governance of Cyber Security
1st Edition
By Lee Parrish
July 18, 2024
Independent directors of corporate boards understand the importance of cyber security as a business issue. Increased regulatory requirements, the onslaught of breaches, as well as the replacement of the corporate network perimeter with more third-party partnerships have all contributed to cyber ...
Controlling Privacy and the Use of Data Assets Set
1st Edition
By Ulf Mattsson
June 07, 2024
"Ulf Mattsson leverages his decades of experience as a CTO and security expert to show how companies can achieve data compliance without sacrificing operability." Jim Ambrosini, CISSP, CRISC, Cybersecurity Consultant and Virtual CISO "Ulf Mattsson lays out not just the rationale for ...
Mastering the Five Tiers of Audit Competency and Say What!? Communicate with Tact and Impact Set
1st Edition
By Ann M. Butera
May 31, 2024
Mastering the Five Tiers of Audit Competency: The Essence of Effective Auditing is an anthology of powerful risk-based auditing practices. Filled with practical do and don’t techniques, it encompasses the interpersonal aspects of risk-based auditing, not just the technical content.This book details...
Cognitive Hack and Cognitive Risk Set
1st Edition
By James Bone, Jessie H Lee
May 30, 2024
Cognitive Hack explores a broad cross section of research and actual case studies to draw out new insights that may be used to build a benchmark for IT security professionals. This research takes a deeper dive beneath the surface of the analysis to uncover novel ways to mitigate data security ...
The Security Leader’s Communication Playbook and Leading the Digital Workforce Set
1st Edition
By Jeffrey W. Brown
May 24, 2024
The Security Leader’s Communication Playbook This book is for cybersecurity leaders across all industries and organizations. It is intended to bridge the gap between the data center and the board room. This book examines the multitude of communication challenges that CISOs are faced with every day ...
Why CISOs Fail 2e and The Security Hippie Set
1st Edition
By Barak Engel
April 16, 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 ...
Riding the Wave: Applying Project Management Science in the Field of Emergency Management
1st Edition
By Andrew Boyarsky
April 05, 2024
Emergency managers and public safety professionals are more frequently being called on to address increasingly challenging and complex critical incidents, with a wider variety and intensity of hazards, threats, and community vulnerabilities. Much of the work that falls into the scope of emergency ...
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 ...