What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to Cybersecurity Frameworks, will discuss what a framework is.

Chapter 2, NIST Cybersecurity Framework Fundamentals, will talk about the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and why you should use it.

Chapter 3, Govern, will review why governance is so important to a cybersecurity program.

Chapter 4, Identify, will highlight why you cannot protect what you cannot see, which is why identifying hardware and software is a key component of your program.

Chapter 5, Protect, will talk about protecting your environment and the sensitive data that resides in it, now that we have identified everything in our environment.

Chapter 6, Detect, will discuss how most IT resources generate logs for events. You must have a game plan for what you do with those logs and where they are placed.

Chapter 7, Respond, will teach how to respond to an incident when one occurs.

Chapter 8, Recover, will discuss best practices for recovering your IT resources after an incident has occurred.

Chapter 9, How to Deal with Cyber Risk, will explain how to reduce cyber risk throughout your organization.

Chapter 10, Policies, Standards, and Procedures, will talk about how policies need structure, help you to develop an easy-to-use method for creating policies, standards, and procedures, and discuss how they are arranged.

Chapter 11, Assessment, will give an overview of how to perform an assessment to better understand your current state, whether you are by yourself or you have a team of auditors.