Security-First Compliance for Small Businesses

This book bridges the gap between complex technical language and business objectives to create a security-first review of the security and compliance landscapes. It has practical solutions for businesses to create "cybersustainable" security-focused policies, processes, and controls to protect today's future for tomorrow's digital ecosystem.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Into the Mind of a Malicious Actor
Chapter 2 Reviewing the Compliance Landscape
Chapter 3 Compliance Risk
Chapter 4 Looking at Risk through a Security Lens
Chapter 5 How to Set Controls
Chapter 6 Continuous Monitoring
Chapter 7 Vendor Risk Management: Securing the Supply Chain
Chapter 8 Calculating the Total Cost of Compliance
Chapter 9 Information Security Audit: The What, How, and Why
Chapter 10 Cyber Liability Insurance
Chapter 11 Cybersustai nability: Ethical Data Handling for Corporate Responsibility
Chapter 12 Magic 8 Ball Says "Yes"

About the author

Karen Walsh passed the Connecticut Bar in 2004. She then worked as a Bank Secrecy Act internal auditor and contract compliance manager for fourteen years before discovering her passion for cybersecurity and privacy compliance. She spent eleven years teaching first-year college writing and applies many of the same pedagogical approaches to writing about information security. The ISACA Journal published her coauthored pieces on cybersustainability in 2019. Her book 100 Geek Heroines was published by ABC-CLIO, part of Bloomsbury, in October 2019, and she has also authored chapters in At Home in the Whedonverse (MacFarland, 2017) and Transmediating the Whedonverse (Springer, 2019).

Summary

This book bridges the gap between complex technical language and business objectives to create a security-first review of the security and compliance landscapes. It has practical solutions for businesses to create "cybersustainable" security-focused policies, processes, and controls to protect today’s future for tomorrow’s digital ecosystem.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Walsh
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.2023
• EAN: 9780367652456
• ISBN: 978-0-367-65245-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Small businesses & self-employed, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Small Business, COMPUTERS / Security / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Mathematics, LAW / Computer & Internet, Privacy & data protection, Small businesses and self-employment, Privacy and data protection, Business mathematics & systems, Legal aspects of IT, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Freelance & Self-Employment, Business mathematics and systems, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects