This guide provides a complete road-map for building, maintaining, and augmenting an information security program based on IT security best practices and standards. It provides all of the basic information needed to perform as a high-functioning information security manager or CISO / CSO. It looks at the role of the CISO, and includes the following: The CISO Skillsets, Building a Security Program from Scratch, Security Organization Models, Communications and Executive Buy-in, and Executive Reporting. It introduces the 80/20 rule for CISO's. If you are responsible for running the information security program, this guide is for you. It talks about performing risk assessments (NIST, HIPAA, PCI DSS), developing a plan of action and tactical and strategic security plans. It talks about developing security policies and procedures. It introduces the concept of security prioritization, data classification, and data protection. The overall goal is to provide you with a template that illustrates everything needed to build, maintain, or augment a security program successfully.

The Chief Security Officer’s Handbook: Leading Your Team into the Future offers practical advice on how to embrace the future, align with your organizations mission, and develop a program that meets the needs of the enterprise. The book discusses real-life examples of what to do to align with other critical departments, how to avoid spending time and resources on unnecessary and outdated methods, and tomorrow’s security program. Today’s security executives need to help their industry, their organization and the next generation of security leaders to pioneer, optimize and transform every aspect of our programs, technologies and methods. The book is ideal for current chief security officers, aspiring security executives, and those interested in better understanding the critical need to modernize corporate security. Offers suggestions on the do's and don’ts of professional development Provides tangible examples on how the CSO works collaboratively with internal peers Instructs CSO's on how to align with the business while remaining agile Illustrates the various paths to becoming a CSO Demonstrates ways to move your program into one that embraces enterprise security risk management, convergence and automation

Packed with practical tools, this authoritative manual offers a complete guide to implementing the evidence-based Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) program. Jane Ellen Smith and Robert J. Meyers have spent decades developing and refining their approach for helping concerned significant others (CSOs) of treatment-refusing individuals with substance use problems. Structured yet flexible, CRAFT teaches loved ones to change their behavior with the identified patient to encourage treatment entry and enhance their own well-being. The volume features step-by-step implementation guidelines, case examples, sample dialogues, troubleshooting tips, and 28 reproducible forms and handouts that can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

How do you maintain the EA in the midst of evolving systems and new business requirements? Do you review supplier service delivery and information security? Has the organization consulted information system owners when identifying common controls to ensure that the security capability provided by the inherited controls is sufficient to deliver adequate protection? Do you re-assess your organizations information security risks whenever changes to supplier services are being considered? What do you do when something goes wrong? This easy CSO self-assessment will make you the accepted CSO domain assessor by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any CSO challenge. How do I reduce the effort in the CSO work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every CSO task and that every CSO outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring CSO costs are low? How can I deliver tailored CSO advice instantly with structured going-forward plans? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all CSO essentials are covered, from every angle: the CSO self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that CSO outcomes are achieved. Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced CSO practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in CSO are maximized with professional results. Your purchase includes access details to the CSO self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows you exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific CSO Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

An easy to use guide written by experienced practitioners for recently-hired or promoted Chief Information Security Offices (CISOs), individuals aspiring to become a CISO, as well as business and technical professionals interested in the topic of cybersecurity, including Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Boards of Directors, Chief Privacy Officers, and other executives responsible for information protection.As a desk reference guide written specifically for CISOs, we hope this book becomes a trusted resource for you, your teams, and your colleagues in the C-suite. The different perspectives can be used as standalone refreshers and the five immediate next steps for each chapter give the reader a robust set of 45 actions based on roughly 100 years of relevant experience that will help you strengthen your cybersecurity programs.