Navigating the Cybersecurity Storm: A Guide for Directors and Officers

This is a plain-english guide for the non-technical director or officers of a public company, a managing director or a fund manager that is trying to keep up on a daily basis with the dramatic changes in the cybersecurity ecosystem in the last 6 months. We not only try to focus on the basics, like network and cloud computing, we focus on advanced goverance and cybersecurity tactics aimed at trying to find and eradicate attempts to find malware on your network. We discuss federal regulation of cybersecurity for financial institutions and regulated investment advisers and funds. Most importantly we discuss incident response planning, training, incident detection, eradication and resiliency. Cybersecurity is too important a topic to not understand fully, and many directors complain they are not given enough information from their IT staffs in order to better understand if the company's cybersecurity strategy is working or not. This book does not and cannot provide all the answers. But it does focus on making sure directors understand the right questions to ask of their management and their IT staffs at their next board meeting. This book is written in an easy to read fashion; its understandable; yet packed with valuable information. We hope that you enjoy it.