How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (774 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01J4XYM16 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 219 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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DOUGLAS W. . HUBBARD is the inventor of Applied Information Economics (AIE), an internationally recognized expert in measurement and quantitative decision analysis, and best-selling author of How to Measure Anything, Third Edition, and The Failure of Risk Management.RICHARD SEIERSEN is general man
In his bestselling book How to Measure Anything, author Douglas W. This book expands upon that premise and draws from The Failure of Risk Management to sound the alarm in the cybersecurity realm. How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk is your guide to more robust protection through better quantitative processes, approaches, and techniques.. 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 riskImprove your current practices with practical alterationsLearn which methods are beyond saving, and worse than doing nothingInsightful and enlightening, this book will inspire a closer examination of your company's own risk management practices in the context of cybersecurity. A ground shaking exposé on the failure of popular cyber risk management methodsHow 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. 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 improv
Regardless of your current understanding of cybersecurity or statistics, everything inside is fully accessible and equips you with a potent collection of strategies and tools from today's top experts in cybersecurity and risk assessment. . How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk presents real solutions by skillfully applying the quantitative language of risk analysis to information security.As with his previous How to Measure Anything books, measurement expert Douglas Hubbard simplifies the complexity of quantifying uncertainty and sheds light on matters with little data or seemingly intangible goals—and here he taps cybersecurity influencer Richard Seiersen to dispel long-held beliefs about cybersecurity practices and provide authoritative guidance to solving problems by measuring risk. This complete resource gets you t
Richard Johnson said Required for risk management pros. Absolutely essential for participants in any risk management program who want to get beyond faking things up with Required for risk management pros Absolutely essential for participants in any risk management program who want to get beyond faking things up with 3 level matrices. Quantitative risk analysis requires accuracy, but not absolute precision. This book gives great practical examples and training for getting to as much accuracy as you need for a given application. Study it, an. level matrices. Quantitative risk analysis requires accuracy, but not absolute precision. This book gives great practical examples and training for getting to as much accuracy as you need for a given application. Study it, an. Great Read - a must for cybersecurity professionals. RandyB Outstanding book. Walks you through going from qualitative assessments to applying quantitative rigor to cyber risk assessments. These methods (shown) brings cyber risk assessment and management more into conformance with standard risk management practices.. "My favorite part is the discussion on Los Exceedance Curves" according to J. Freund. This book is a must-read for anyone trying to understand priority in Cyber Security operations. The authors take you through the basics of measurement, how risk has been misapplied in the cyber security industry, and makes recommendations for how to improve risk communication with executives. My favorite part is the discussion on Loss Exce