Kindle Pick of the Week: Cyber Strong

Ajay Singh brings over 35 years in cybersecurity to this book.

Cyber Risk Management for Business Leaders – as Cyber Threats Soar

In the post-COVID world, millions of employees now find themselves working from home, leaving organizations scrambling to manage cyber risks as workers use often-weak home communications infrastructure.

But pandemic aside, every organization’s key information assets are heavily exposed to cyber threats, making it one of the leading causes of theft and loss.

In his new book, Ajay Singh demystifies and simplifies cyber risk management so anyone can not only understand the threats, but acknowledge and implement the many opportunities that exist to safeguard against cybercrime.

Synopsis of ‘CyberStrong: A Primer on Cyber Risk Management for Business Managers’:

Cyber risk is one of the biggest challenges businesses face in the 21st Century. The increasing dependence and use of technology to run businesses combined with the spate of cyber-attacks and risk to reputational damage in recent times has made cybersecurity a top priority for corporates as well as big and small businesses.

Limited knowledge of cybersecurity among business leaders and managers is a major barrier for effective cyber risk management. This book empowers business managers to assess cyber threats, integrate cybersecurity strategy with business goals, and build appropriate response systems to deal with cyber risks.

Securing businesses from cyber risks requires business managers to proactively identify, understand and manage them. Most organizations have possibly experienced some type of a cyber incident. The increasing severity and frequency of these threats underlines the importance of managing cyber risks. Be it phishing attacks, business email compromise attacks, ransomware attacks or other types of cyber malware attacks and scams. Cybercriminals are always looking to exploit any cyber vulnerabilities to steal data relating to your business including customer data, employee data, intellectual property data, financial data, and most of all money. In a post COVID-19 world the threat of cyber-attacks has only grown larger, with the workforce of many organizations having to work from home. The threat of cybercrime is widespread and continues to effect individuals, organisations, and governments worldwide.

Today, the top leadership of an organization is increasingly being held responsible for cybersecurity related incidents such as data breaches and compliance failures. Board members and business leaders must be actively involved in implementing a governance structure, evaluating cyber threats and risks and articulating policy and procedure in order to safeguard their information assets. They must also play a key role in defining the risk appetite and thresholds, risk monitoring and in providing guidance for aligning cyber risk management to an organization’s goals and objectives.

CYBERSTRONG! A Primer on Cyber Risk Management for Business Managers, aims to inform and empower business managers and leaders alike to be able to assess cyber threats, integrate cybersecurity strategy with business goals, and build appropriate response systems to deal with cyber risks.

The book demystifies and simplifies a complex technical subject and uses case studies to enhance understanding and implementing various aspects of cyber risk management that helps business leaders and managers to integrate cyber risk management with business strategy. It also helps Board members and Senior Management to interact with IT staff and experts on the many facets of cybersecurity including development of action plans and compliance.

“Every business leader, owner, manager or even IT student can use this book to stop the confusion over cyber security, and learn what it is and how to implement safeguards – in a way that is simple and just makes sense,” explains the author. “Many people think that cyber threats are something they almost have to submit to – but you can absolutely and perfectly safeguard your information assets. I’ll show you how.”

Continuing, “Almost every business I consult with has numerous cybersecurity “holes” they didn’t know existed. So, even if you have an iron-clad strategy in place, this book will show you what you need to go back and revisit, so you can “plug up” the holes and ensure your existing strategy has true longevity.”

Reviews have been extremely positive. Prof. M. L. Saikumar, PhD writes, “This book gives extensive coverage on how organizations can keep themselves protected from cyber threats. It will enable you to turn a risk into advantage. It discusses topics ranging from identifying cyber threats and vulnerabilities to understanding cyber risks and managing cyber risks. Author has structured the contents very well and has included real-life examples. This book can be useful to business leaders, IT professionals and law-enforcing authorities. It can be used as a textbook in universities and colleges in the graduate programs on cyber security. This book is the need of the hour.”

Ashok Barat, Board Member and Corporate Advisor, and President of The Council of EU Chambers of Commerce in India, adds, “Like cricket, writing a book is all about ‘timing’. Ajay’s exquisite cover drive exposing gaps in the ‘cyber security fielding’ of internet users is an elegant display of his skills. The recent events have made the internet and exposure to the cyber world commonplace and ubiquitous. This primer is as essential as the helmet and the guards for the business manager and for you and me. A must-read for all.”

‘CyberStrong: A Primer on Cyber Risk Management for Business Managers’ is available now:

 https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Ajay-Singh-ebook/dp/B08KZC4RFF/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=