Information Security for Executives: Enabling Business Operations, Proactively Managing Risks from Cyberattacks

Information Security for Executives is the essential guide to effectively protecting your organization against cyberattacks. It examines why so many organizations keep falling victim to costly cyberattacks, offering proven practical solutions.

Hackers are relentless and becoming more resourceful. With the rise of AI enhanced attacks (and the involvement of nation-state threat actors), more organizations are bound to get hit hard and breached. Are you prepared? Are you aware of the actual state of information security (Infosec) in your organization? This book shows plainly how leaders can proactively get deeper insights, and help their organizations become better equipped, to handle cyberattacks.

Written for executives, professionals, and anyone interested in learning about Infosec best practices, Information Security for Executives:

• Reveals organizational missteps, startling lapses in judgment that allow cyberattacks with devastating consequences, which hurt the bottom line.
• Provides proactive steps that can be taken to effectively prevent or minimize the impact of cyberattacks.
• Shows how leveraging cybersecurity can help reduce costs and expand business opportunities.

Filled with instructive stories, the book shares cautionary tales to show how businesses are easily caught off guard by cyberattacks. It draws from the author's extensive experience and insider view as an Infosec and technology expert at Fortune 500 corporations and other organizations. The book is succinctly written to be easily understood without a tech background. Through on-the-ground research and practical frameworks, the author offers the specific tools needed to stay alert for cyberattacks and protect the future of your organization.

Fred Igbeare is an information security and multimedia consultant providing vCISO (virtual Chief Information Security Officer) and other specialized services to corporate clients. Holding multiple industry certifications, he is also the board chair at Vocational Scholars(R), a nonprofit organization dedicated to upskilling, reskilling, and mentoring people for the workplace. He is a former adjunct professor and recipient of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship at the Columbia University Journalism School. Mr. Igbeare lives and works on the US East Coast. He has previously published two books: Love to Live Forever and Benefits in God.