Clear and jargon free, Cybersecurity Program Development for Business offers a down-to-earth guide for business executives who have little or no understanding of cybersecurity. If you are ultimately responsible for making pragmatic, rational, and informed decisions about cybersecurity for your organization, yet feeling unprepared for the role, this book is for you.

Written by cybersecurity consultant Chris Moschovitis, Cybersecurity Program Development for Business puts the topic of cybersecurity into perspective by eschewing the typical list of scary statistics and not buying into doom-and-gloom scenarios. Instead, the author takes a direct approach and uses simple terminology that helps build confidence and offers hope. This book outlines a step-by-step, actionable strategy that will give you the ability to participate in the conversation with your technical experts. Imagine joining the conversation with the same experts who in the past were talking above your head and around you.

Cybersecurity Program Development for Business explains why cybersecurity is needed and outlines the core risk management principles including guidelines on threats, tools, roles, and responsibilities. This essential guide is filled with dozens of real-world examples and case studies from a variety of businesses and industries that explore every element of the development and management of an effective cybersecurity program.

In one volume, the author presents a comprehensive review of what it takes to understand, develop, and implement a cybersecurity program. This book is the clear and logical guide that will become a well-thumbed resource and a useful reference as individual questions and challenges arise.

"This is the book executives have been waiting for. It is clear: With deep expertise but in nontechnical language, it describes what cybersecurity risks are and the decisions executives need to make to address them. It is crisp: Quick and to the point, it doesn't waste words and won't waste your time. It is candid: There is no sure cybersecurity defense, and Chris Moschovitis doesn't pretend there is; instead, he tells you how to understand your company's risk and make smart business decisions about what you can mitigate and what you cannot.

It is also, in all likelihood, the only book ever written (or ever to be written) about cybersecurity defense that is fun to read."

—Thomas A. Stewart, Executive Director, National Center for the Middle Market and Co-Author of Woo, Wow, and Win: Service Design, Strategy, and the Art of Customer Delight

Get answers to all your cybersecurity questions

In 2016, we reached a tipping point—a moment where the global and local implications of cybersecurity became undeniable. Despite the seriousness of the topic, the term "cybersecurity" still exasperates many people. They feel terrorized and overwhelmed. The majority of business people have very little understanding of cybersecurity, how to manage it, and what's really at risk.

This essential guide, with its dozens of examples and case studies, breaks down every element of the development and management of a cybersecurity program for the executive. From understanding the need, to core risk management principles, to threats, tools, roles and responsibilities, this book walks the reader through each step of developing and implementing a cybersecurity program. Read cover-to-cover, it’s a thorough overview, but it can also function as a useful reference book as individual questions and difficulties arise.

• Unlike other cybersecurity books, the text is not bogged down with industry jargon
• Speaks specifically to the executive who is not familiar with the development or implementation of cybersecurity programs
• Shows you how to make pragmatic, rational, and informed decisions for your organization
• Written by a top-flight technologist with decades of experience and a track record of success

If you’re a business manager or executive who needs to make sense of cybersecurity, this book demystifies it for you.