The Cyber Risk Handbook - (Wiley Finance) by Domenic Antonucci (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

The Cyber Risk Handbook is the practitioner's guide to implementing, measuring and improving the counter-cyber capabilities of the modern enterprise. The first resource of its kind, this book provides authoritative guidance for real-world situations, and cross-functional solutions for enterprise-wide improvement. Beginning with an overview of counter-cyber evolution, the discussion quickly turns practical with design and implementation guidance for the range of capabilities expected of a robust cyber risk management system that is integrated with the enterprise risk management (ERM) system. Expert contributors from around the globe weigh in on specialized topics with tools and techniques to help any type or size of organization create a robust system tailored to its needs. Chapter summaries of required capabilities are aggregated to provide a new cyber risk maturity model used to benchmark capabilities and to road-map gap-improvement.

Cyber risk is a fast-growing enterprise risk, not just an IT risk. Yet seldom is guidance provided as to what this means. This book is the first to tackle in detail those enterprise-wide capabilities expected by Board, CEO and Internal Audit, of the diverse executive management functions that need to team up with the Information Security function in order to provide integrated solutions.

• Learn how cyber risk management can be integrated to better protect your enterprise
• Design and benchmark new and improved practical counter-cyber capabilities
• Examine planning and implementation approaches, models, methods, and more
• Adopt a new cyber risk maturity model tailored to your enterprise needs

The need to manage cyber risk across the enterprise--inclusive of the IT operations--is a growing concern as massive data breaches make the news on an alarmingly frequent basis. With a cyber risk management system now a business-necessary requirement, practitioners need to assess the effectiveness of their current system, and measure its gap-improvement over time in response to a dynamic and fast-moving threat landscape. The Cyber Risk Handbook brings the world's best thinking to bear on aligning that system to the enterprise and vice-a-versa. Every functional head of any organization must have a copy at-hand to understand their role in achieving that alignment.

From the Back Cover

Praise for The Cyber Risk Handbook

"Domenic Antonucci and his outstanding collection of contributors have produced a most timely and comprehensive reference and teaching guide on one of the most potentially impactful and evolving risks facing organizations (and governments) today. This book should be an extremely valuable resource for directors, executives, chief information officers, risk managers, auditors, and all concerned with this critical topic. I particularly like how the risks and controls are presented in the context of overall governance and enterprise risk management."
--John R. S. Fraser, FCPA, FCA, Retired Chief Risk Officer and Adjunct Professor, York University

"Domenic makes a most practical and valuable contribution...he curates a wide-ranging body of knowledge on this most vexing topic from a globally diverse group of subject matter experts. Unlike books written by IT experts for IT practitioners, Mr. Antonucci provides an invaluable resource for management to enable them to ask the right questions of their IT experts ... so as to assure themselves that the matters that should be keeping them awake at night are being addressed and that reporting systems are providing them with the management information they need to know rather than what they want to hear. Mr. Antonucci and his contributors are to be commended for their work."
--Kevin W. Knight, AM, Immediate Past Chairman, ISO/TC 262 - Risk Management and Adjunct Professor, University of Queensland Business School

"This timely cyber security reference guide, structured on a maturity model to aid comprehension of current capabilities, addresses what has become, for many organizations, their priority risk management activity. Cyber security is evolving in nature and becoming more prevalent, sophisticated, and invasive. The book rightly identifies cyber security as a C-Suite responsibility with enterprise-wide implications - not for delegation to the IT department. The way an organization addresses cyber-crime (as seen in the financial sector) has a direct bearing on its reputation, customer base, profitability, and indeed its very longevity."
--Dr. Robert Chapman, Managing Director, Dr. Chapman & Associates

"The Cyber Risk Handbook provides comprehensive and practical guidance. One of the key pluses of this book is its holistic focus on the importance of people, behavior, and processes, rather than just technological solutions. Domenic Antonucci has assembled a team of experts, all of whom are uniquely qualified to contribute to the ongoing discussion regarding this capricious and exponentially significant risk. I found The Cyber Risk Handbook an easy read, and I particularly liked the comprehensive overview of the key developments in cyber risk management. This book will appeal to a wide audience enabling them to learn solutions to critical issues and formulate a good practice methodology that ensures they stay ahead of the latest threats."
--Nicola Crawford, Chair, The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) and Managing Director, i-Risk Europe Ltd

"Very thorough and comprehensive. A wide variety of experts describing all facets of cyber risks ... a necessary focus on top management involvement. Information and systems as the new risk frontier."
--Franck Baron, Chairman and VP, Pan Asia Risk & Insurance Management Association (PARIMA)

About the Author

DOMENIC ANTONUCCI is a practicing international chief risk officer overseeing cybersecurity and a former counter-terrorist officer. Based in Dubai, UAE, he specializes in bringing organizations "up the risk maturity curve." He is the content author for the Benchmarker(TM) Risk Maturity Model software and author of Risk Maturity Models.