Stepping Through Cybersecurity Risk Management : A Systems Thinking Approach

Stepping Through Cybersecurity Risk Management covers the professional practice of cybersecurity from the perspective of enterprise governance and risk management. It describes the state of the art in cybersecurity risk identification, classification, measurement, remediation, monitoring and reporting. It includes industry standard techniques for examining cybersecurity threat actors, cybersecurity attacks in the context of cybersecurity-related events, technology controls, cybersecurity measures and metrics, cybersecurity issue tracking and analysis, and risk and control assessments.

The book provides precise definitions for information relevant to cybersecurity management decisions and recommendations for collecting and consolidating that information in the service of enterprise risk management. The objective is to enable the listener to recognize, understand, and apply risk-relevant information to the analysis, evaluation, and mitigation of cybersecurity risk. A well-rounded resource, Stepping Through Cybersecurity Risk Management describes both reports and studies that improve cybersecurity decision support.

Composed of ten chapters, the author provides learning objectives, exercises and quiz questions per chapter in an appendix, with quiz answers and exercise grading criteria available to professors.