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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 Debra Baker
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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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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 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Testing your backups

When I was a CISO at RedSeal, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) came back from a training session with a Venture Capital firm. It was a security and leadership conference for all of the CEOs in the Venture Capital Company’s ecosystem. The CEO immediately reached out to me with the top actions that our company needed to take in order to be protected against ransomware. I had already done a lot of research on ransomware for a presentation that I did at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference, which is one of the largest IT Health conferences in the world.

Having good offline backups, as well as testing your backups, was a must. Many times, when it comes to being time to recover from a backup, the company realizes too late that they either don’t have good offline backups or their backups are corrupted in some way. Possibly, the data they thought were being backed up weren’t.

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Debra Baker
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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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