Digital Resilience: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Cyber Threat? - Hardcover

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RAY A. ROTHROCK is CEO of RedSeal, a premier cyber security analytics platform. RedSealÆs corporate customers span the finance, utility, technology, and retail sectors. Government clients include defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies.

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Cybercrime is on the rise—and businesses large and small are at risk. For management, the question is not if you will be targeted, but when.

Are you prepared? Is your enterprise actively monitoring networks? Is it taking steps to enable continued operation during an incident? Do you have a recovery plan ready?

Digital Resilience lays bare the tactics used by hackers, vulnerabilities lurking in networks, and strategies not just for surviving attacks, but thriving even while under assault. Fascinating and highly readable, it helps business leaders: Understand the threats you face • Assess the resilience of your networks against attacks • Identify and address weaknesses • Respond to exploits swiftly and effectively.

Don’t let your company be the next grim headline. Deploy the resilience-building strategies you need to prevail—no matter what strikes.

Advance Praise for Digital Resilience:

“This important book, written by one of the nation’s most recognized experts in cybersecurity, is about how we can make America’s networks, and those of others, resilient in the face of the inevitable cyberattack, and able to resume essential operations quickly. . . . What I like most about this book is the explanation of technical topics in a manner accessible to the average person. . . . You’ll learn what digital resiliency is, and how to create it. . . . Ray delineates many different actions that you can take today to imple-ment safeguards for different threats. . . . Digital resilience means survival.”— Excerpted from the foreword by Richard A. Clarke, author of Cyber War, and former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counterterrorism

“Rothrock explains why the old ways of protecting your institution from cyberattack (Stronger perimeters! More tools!) are no longer effective, and in clear, specific ways lays out how to make your business resilient after a cyberattack.” -- James M. Kaplan, Partner, McKinsey & Company

“Now, when the threat of cyberattacks seems limitless, Ray Rothrock’s Digital Resilience offers companies a new and sustainable way forward to manage cyber risks and address the growing friction between securing digital information and using it to enhance business value.” — Friso van der Oord, Director of Research, National Association for Corporate Directors

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In 2013, hackers compromised the credit card information of 40 million Target customers, triggering lawsuits and damaging the brand. In 2016, a massive data breach caused a $350 million drop in Yahoo’s selling price to Verizon. In 2017, “WannaCry” ransomware infected 230,000 computers in a single day—including those at UK hospitals that lost access to life-saving equipment.

Each month brings stories of more sophisticated and brazen attacks, as data theft, downed servers, and malware wreak havoc on organizations. A pressing question for every business leader is this: Would your enterprise withstand a major network breach?

Most networks are extremely vulnerable, warns Ray Rothrock, a cybersecurity expert who works with major companies and government organizations. In Digital Resilience, he provides a sweeping overview of today’s digital infrastructure, explaining both potential threats and powerful fixes—from blocking unauthorized entries to your network to containing malware to recovering quickly when inevitable breaches and human errors do occur.

Packed with an expert’s takes on what went wrong and right in numerous high-profile cases, the book explains:

• How the nature of the internet leaves so many networks exposed

• Which strategies are most effective, and most cost-effective, at securing networks

• How cybercriminals operate like particularly ruthless business competitors

• How to speak the language of technical managers

• How to design organizations and systems to better absorb disruptions

• Why networks should emulate the resilience principles found in physical and natural systems

• How to make a persuasive cost–benefit analysis of specific security and resilience measures

• How to embed digital resilience into training and operations

Written specifically for nontechnical executives and managers, this engaging, deeply researched book drives home the magnitude of the problem and offers sensible strategies for preparing an enterprise to thrive through any challenge ahead.

Ray A. Rothrock is CEO of RedSeal, a premier cybersecurity analytics platform. RedSeal’s corporate customers span the finance, utility, technology, and retail sectors. Government clients include defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies. He lives in the Silicon Valley region of California.