1st Edition

Security-First Compliance for Small Businesses

By Karen Walsh Copyright 2024
220 Pages
by CRC Press

220 Pages
by CRC Press

220 Pages
by CRC Press

Organizations of all sizes struggle to secure their data in a constantly evolving digital landscape. Expanding digital footprints and the rapid expansion of cloud strategies arising from the COVID-19 pandemic increase an organization’s attack surface. When combined with limited resources caused by the cybersecurity skills gap, securing small and mid-sized business IT infrastructures becomes more... Read more
Chapter 1 Into the Mind of a Malicious Actor

Chapter 2 Reviewing the Compliance Landscape

Chapter 3 Compliance Risk

Chapter 4 Looking at Risk through a Security Lens

Chapter 5 How to Set Controls

Chapter 6 Continuous Monitoring

Chapter 7 Vendor Risk Management: Securing the Supply Chain

Chapter 8 Calculating the Total Cost of Compliance

Chapter 9 Information Security Audit: The What, How, and Why

Chapter 10 Cyber Liability Insurance

Chapter 11 Cybersustai nability: Ethical Data Handling for Corporate Responsibility

Chapter 12 Magic 8 Ball Says "Yes"

Biography

Karen Walsh passed the Connecticut Bar in 2004. She then worked as a Bank Secrecy Act internal auditor and contract compliance manager for fourteen years before discovering her passion for cybersecurity and privacy compliance. She spent eleven years teaching first-year college writing and applies many of the same pedagogical approaches to writing about information security. The ISACA Journal published her coauthored pieces on cybersustainability in 2019. Her book 100 Geek Heroines was published by ABC-CLIO, part of Bloomsbury, in October 2019, and she has also authored chapters in At Home in the Whedonverse (MacFarland, 2017) and Transmediating the Whedonverse (Springer, 2019).