WHY THIS BOOK MATTERS

An investment of over $45 billion dollars has been made in cybersecurity over the past 15 years, yet breaches continue. As of 2020, there are more than 500,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs in the US alone with less than one million professionals employed in the field, yielding a negative employment rate of over 50%. We desperately need more people to enter the cybersecurity field, and we also need to aggressively automate away some of the most basic, entry-level positions in the field by leveraging the power of artificial intelligence and cloud computing.

You do not have to be a deep technologist to get involved in cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is a field in which you need to be multi-disciplinary to be successful. This book will provide you with a solid understanding of how phishing, malware, software vulnerabilities, third-party compromise and abuse, unencrypted data, and inadvertent employee mistakes have resulted in a significant negative business and political impact.

Lessons learned are provided along with a blueprint for how people can enter the field and help starting at the board level down to entry-level information security analysts.  Whether entering the field as a beginner, or as an existing technology or business professional, you can help defend against the nation-state and organized cybercriminal attacks that will target your organization.