How to Build a Cyber-Resilient Organization

How to Build a Cyber-Resilient Organization shows you how to create a verifiable cyber-resilient infrastructure, which will ensure reliable security for critical objects. It explains how to establish systematic identification, prioritization, protection, and recovery processes. This is embodied in seven generic principles: Classify, Risk, Rank, Architecture, Test, Recover, and Evolve. The organization dynamically adjusts its cyber-resilient architecture based on lessons learned overtime. How to Build a Cyber-Resilient Organization encapsulates the belief that the creation of a cyber-resilient architecture is a strategic exercise. The outcome of this exercise is a formally defined and implemented infrastructure of best practices specifically aimed at optimizing the survival of critical organizational functions across the organization. As with any complex process, deployment can only be substantiated through a rational and explicit framework of auditable controls. The book presents the process for creating and deploying those controls. This book describes an approach that is meant to implement a state of cyber resilience as a real-world condition. This is a business-level activity. Therefore, there are no expectations about specialized technical knowledge. After reading this book you will be able to 1. create, sustain, and evolve a cyber-resilient organizational infrastructure; 2. define and evaluate control arrays to ensure all assets of critical value; and 3. ensure full and complete recovery of noncritical assets in the timeliest and most effective way possible. You will also know how to design and evolve a cyber-resilient architectural process for a given organization as well as how to maintain a state of cyber resilience in the day-to-day operation of the business. You will also be able to ensure a stable state of systematic cyber resilience within their organization as well as evolve the protection scheme to continue to appropriately address the threat environment. Book jacket.