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A CISO Guide to Cyber Resilience

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Product type Book

Published in Apr 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835466926

Pages 238 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Debra Baker

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Attack on BigCo

2. Chapter 1: The Attack on BigCo

3. Part 2: Security Resilience: Getting the Basics Down

4. Chapter 2: Identity and Access Management

5. Chapter 3: Security Policies

6. Chapter 4: Security and Risk Management

7. Chapter 5: Securing Your Endpoints

8. Chapter 6: Data Safeguarding

9. Chapter 7: Security Awareness Culture

10. Chapter 8: Vulnerability Management

11. Chapter 9: Asset Inventory

12. Chapter 10: Data Protection

13. Part 3: Security Resilience: Taking Your Security Program to the Next Level

14. Chapter 11: Taking Your Endpoint Security to the Next Level

15. Chapter 12: Secure Configuration Baseline

16. Chapter 13: Classify Your Data and Assets

17. Chapter 14: Cyber Resilience in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

18. Index

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I was at a security conference, and I heard a talk by Sean McCloskey, the Chief of Cybersecurity for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Region 4. Sean spoke about the importance of good offline backups. He said that every single company that has suffered a ransomware attack where he was part of the incident response did not have good offline backups. Whenever I talk about backups, I always stress that they must be offline. You’re probably asking, What’s the deal with offline backups? Well, with ransomware, it will encrypt all connected online drives. If you are using iCloud or SharePoint as an online backup drive, it will also be encrypted if ransomware is run on your computer. Likewise, any online USB-connected drives will be encrypted.

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Authors (1)

Debra Baker

Debra Baker has 30 years of experience in Information Security. As CEO of TrustedCISO, Debra provides strategic cybersecurity CISO Advisory Services. She has an AI first startup aiming to power through the pain of Third Party Vendor Assessment and Compliance. Previously, Debra was CISO at RedSeal where she led the security program successfully getting SOC2 Type 2. Previously, she served as Regulatory Compliance Manager at Cisco. While at Cisco she founded the cryptographic knowledge base, CryptoDoneRight in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University. Debra was named one of the top 100 Women in Cybersecurity, "Women Know Cyber: 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime."

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