Overview

"A start-to-finish guide for realistically measuring cybersecurity risk In the newly revised How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk, Second Edition, a pioneering information security professional and a leader in quantitative analysis methods delivers yet another eye-opening text applying the quantitative language of risk analysis to cybersecurity. In the book, the authors demonstrate how to quantify uncertainty and shed light on how to measure seemingly intangible goals. It's a practical guide to improving risk assessment with a straightforward and simple framework. Advanced methods and detailed advice for a variety of use cases round out the book, which also includes: A new ""Rapid Risk Audit"" for a first quick quantitative risk assessment. New research on the real impact of reputation damage New Bayesian examples for assessing risk with little data New material on simple measurement and estimation, pseudo-random number generators, and advice on combining expert opinion Dispelling long-held beliefs and myths about information security, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk is an essential roadmap for IT security managers, CFOs, risk and compliance professionals, and even statisticians looking for novel new ways to apply quantitative techniques to cybersecurity."

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Author:   Douglas W. Hubbard (Hubbard Decision Research) ,  Richard Seiersen (Resilience)
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9781119892304

ISBN 10:   1119892309
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   24 April 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

Foreword for the Second Edition Jack Jones ix Acknowledgments xiii Preface xv Introduction 1 PART I WHY CYBERSECURITY NEEDS BETTER MEASUREMENTS FOR RISK 5 CHAPTER 1 The One Patch Most Needed in Cybersecurity 7 CHAPTER 2 A Measurement Primer for Cybersecurity 21 CHAPTER 3 The Rapid Risk Audit: Starting With a Simple Quantitative Risk Model 43 CHAPTER 4 The Single Most Important Measurement in Cybersecurity 73 CHAPTER 5 Risk Matrices, Lie Factors, Misconceptions, and Other Obstacles to Measuring Risk 101 PART II EVOLVING THE MODEL OF CYBERSECURITY RISK 133 CHAPTER 6 Decompose It: Unpacking the Details 135 CHAPTER 7 Calibrated Estimates: How Much Do You Know Now? 155 CHAPTER 8 Reducing Uncertainty with Bayesian Methods 183 CHAPTER 9 Some Powerful Methods Based on Bayes 193 PART III CYBERSECURITY RISK MANAGEMENT FOR THE ENTERPRISE 231 CHAPTER 10 Toward Security Metrics Maturity 233 CHAPTER 11 How Well Are My Security Investments Working Together? 257 CHAPTER 12 A Call to Action: How to Roll Out Cybersecurity Risk Management 277 APPENDIX A Selected Distributions 289 APPENDIX B Guest Contributors 297 Index 327

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DOUGLAS W. HUBBARD is the inventor of the Applied Information Economics (AIE) method and the founder of Hubbard Decision Research. He is an internationally recognized expert in the area of decision analysis. RICHARD SEIERSEN is the Chief Risk Officer of Resilience, a cyberinsurance firm. He is the former Chief Information Security Officer at LendingClub, Twilio, and GE Healthcare and Co-founder of the cloud native security company Soluble – sold to Lacework in 2021.

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