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How to measure anything in cybersecurity risk

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How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk exposes the shortcomings of current "risk management" practices, and offers a series of improvement techniques that help you fill the holes and ramp up security. In his best-selling book How to Measure Anything, author Douglas W. Hubbard opened the business world's eyes to the critical need for better measurement. This book expands upon that premise and draws from The Failure of Risk Management to sound the alarm in the cybersecurity realm. Some of the field's premier risk management approaches actually create more risk than they mitigate, and questionable methods have been duplicated across industries and embedded in the products accepted as gospel. This book sheds light on these blatant risks and provides alternate techniques that can help improve your current situation. You'll also learn which approaches are too risky to save and are actually more damaging than a total lack of any security. Dangerous risk management methods abound; there is no industry more critically in need of solutions than cybersecurity. This book provides solutions where they exist, and advises when to change tracks entirely.

Discover the shortcomings of cybersecurity's "best practices"
Learn which risk management approaches actually create risk
Improve your current practices with practical alterations
Learn which methods are beyond saving, and worse than doing nothing
Insightful and enlightening, this book will inspire a closer examination of your company's own risk management practices in the context of cybersecurity. The end goal is airtight data protection, so finding cracks in the vault is a positive thing - as long as you get there before the bad guys do. How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk is your guide to more robust protection through better quantitative processes, approaches, and techniques.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword Daniel E. Geer, Jr. ix
Foreword Stuart McClure xi
Acknowledgments xiii
About the Authors 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 19
CHAPTER 3 Model Now!: An Introduction to Practical Quantitative Methods for Cybersecurity 35
CHAPTER 4 The Single Most Important Measurement in Cybersecurity 55
CHAPTER 5 Risk Matrices, Lie Factors, Misconceptions, and Other Obstacles to Measuring Risk 81

PART II EVOLVING THE MODEL OF CYBERSECURITY RISK 111
CHAPTER 6 Decompose It: Unpacking the Details 113
CHAPTER 7 Calibrated Estimates: How Much Do You Know Now ? 133
CHAPTER 8 Reducing Uncertainty with Bayesian Methods 157
CHAPTER 9 Some Powerful Methods Based on Bayes 169

PART III CYBERSECURITY RISK MANAGEMENT FOR THE ENTERPRISE 197
CHAPTER 10 Toward Security Metrics Maturity 199
CHAPTER 11 How Well Are My Security Investments Working Together? 213
CHAPTER 12 A Call to Action: How to Roll Out Cybersecurity Risk Management 229
APPENDIX A Select Distributions 239
APPENDIX B Guest Contributors 247
Index 269

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Call Number

005.8 HUB h

Publisher

Hoboken : Wiley., 2016

Collation

xv, 280 hlm; 23 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781119085294

Classification

005.8

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Subject(s)

Computer security
Cyber insurance

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Statement of Responsibility

Douglas W. Hubbard dan Richard Seiersen

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