Beyond Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Digital Business

Foreword

We live in a remarkable age of technology innovation. The speed with which we are able to communicate, collaborate, and transform our businesses and organizations is truly astounding. Yet the risk created by our increasing dependence on those technology advancements is equally astounding. The economic, operational, and reputational risks of technology are well known to anyone who has paid even passing attention to the almost daily security breach headlines.

In their research, so effectively laid out in this book, the authors explain why there is so much cyber insecurity today, how it has become such an intractable problem, why it could get worse, and what organizations, industries, and governments must do now to start to address the problem. Importantly, James Kaplan, Tucker Bailey, Chris Rezek, Derek O’Halloran, and Alan Marcus go beyond elucidating today’s risks and how to mitigate them, and extrapolate the downstream economic consequences if organizations don’t change their fundamental approach to cybersecurity.

During the course of the authors’ work, I had an opportunity to preview their methodology and early results. So much of what they were seeing in organizations around the globe mirrored what I had been seeing and hearing from RSA’s customers. As the authors subsequently presented their early findings to national representatives of countries from Europe, Asia, and the Americas at the 2014 RSA Conferences, it was clear that their findings resonated globally ...