How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk by Douglas W. Hubbard

Shifting from purely qualitative judgments and simplifications to a proven quantitative model that leverages measurements and the expertise of security professionals holds the promise for dramatically shifting how we manage cyber risk.' 'I am excited to see a new method of risk management emerging from this book. Praise for How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk is your guide to more robust protection through better quantitative processes, approaches, and techniques. 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. * 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.

This book provides solutions where they exist, and advises when to change tracks entirely. Dangerous risk management methods abound there is no industry more critically in need of solutions than cybersecurity. You'll also learn which approaches are too risky to save, and are actually more damaging than a total lack of any security. This book sheds light on these blatant risks, and provides alternate techniques that can help improve your current situation. 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 expands upon that premise and draws from The Failure of Risk Management to sound the alarm in the cybersecurity realm. Hubbard opened the business world's eyes to the critical need for better measurement. In his bestselling book How to Measure Anything, author Douglas W. A ground shaking expose on the failure of popular cyber risk management methods 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.

How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk by Douglas W. Hubbard