Implementing Cybersecurity: How to Use Security Concepts and Street Smarts to Secure Your IT Systems How to Use Security Concepts and Street Smarts to Secure Your IT Systems

This book shows how to use cybersecurity concepts and "street skills" effectively to implement security for your information technology (IT) systems. It explains how to use the automated tools available; how to tailor security controls; how to gain additional resources and support; and how to leverage people and processes to secure and maintain the security of their systems. Successful cybersecurity is about establishing ownership for the solutions by the key stakeholders and obtaining the required solutions and resources to make their systems secure. This requires street skills: facilitation, leadership, motivation, and sales techniques, skills which the book clearly presents.

1. Prologue: What Is the Book About? 2. Motivation: Why Implement Cybersecurity? 3. Risk: How Much is Enough? 4. Controls: How to Secure. 5. Efficiency: Leveraging the Concepts. 6. Processes: Past Approaches to Identify and Implement Cybersecurity. 7. Recommended Process: The Efficient/Effective Process. 8. Summary: Go Forth and Secure! 9. Appendices: Resources and References.