CISO COMPASS: Navigating Cybersecurity Leadership Challenges with Insights from Pioneers

#1 Best Selling Information Security Book by Taylor & Francis in 2019 and 2020 2020 Cybersecurity CANON Hall of Fame WinnerTodd Fitzgerald co-author of the ground-breaking (ISC)2 CISO Leadership: Essential Principles for Success Information Security Governance Simplified: From the Boardroom to the Keyboard co-author for the E-C Council CISO Body of Knowledge and contributor to many others including Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP CBK COBIT 5 for Information Security and ISACA CSX Cybersecurity Fundamental Certification is back with this new book incorporating practical experience in leading building and sustaining an information security/cybersecurity program.CISO COMPASS includes personal pragmatic perspectives and lessons learned of over 75 award-winning CISOs security leaders professional association leaders and cybersecurity standard setters who have fought the tough battle. Todd has also for the first time adapted the McKinsey 7S framework (strategy structure systems shared values staff skills and style) for organizational effectiveness to the practice of leading cybersecurity to structure the content to ensure comprehensive coverage by the CISO and security leaders to key issues impacting the delivery of the cybersecurity strategy and demonstrate to the Board of Directors due diligence. The insights will assist the security leader to create programs appreciated and supported by the organization capable of industry/ peer award-winning recognition enhance cybersecurity maturity gain confidence by senior management and avoid pitfalls. The book is a comprehensive soup-to-nuts book enabling security leaders to effectively protect information assets and build award-winning programs by covering topics such as developing cybersecurity strategy emerging trends and technologies cybersecurity organization structure and reporting models leveraging current incidents security control frameworks risk management laws and regulations data protection and privacy meaningful policies and procedures multi-generational workforce team dynamics soft skills and communicating with the Board of Directors and executive management. The book is valuable to current and future security leaders as a valuable resource and an integral part of any college program for information/ cybersecurity. About the Author Todd Fitzgerald CISSP CISA CISM CIPM CIPP/US CIPP/E CIPP/C CGEIT CRISC PMP ISO27000 and ITILv3 certified is Managing Director of CISO Spotlight LLCTodd has built and led multiple Fortune 500/large company information security programs for 20 years across multiple industries named 2016-17 Chicago CISO of the Year by AITP ISSA ISACA Infragard and SIM ranked Top 50 Information Security Executive and Information Security Executive (ISE) Award Finalist and named Ponemon Institute Fellow. Fitzgerald coauthored with Micki Krause the first professional organization Chief Information Security Officer Book CISO Leadership: Essential Principles for Success (ISC2 Press 2008). Todd also authored Information Security Governance Simplified: From the Boardroom to the Keyboard (Auerbach 2012) and co-authored Certified Chief Information Security Officer Body of Knowledge (E-C Council 2014) and has contributed to over a dozen others. Fitzgerald has participated in the development of materials for the Official CISSP Exam Study Guide Information Security Handbook Series ISACA COBIT 5 for Information Security and ISACA CSX Cybersecurity Fundamentals. Fitzgerald is a top-rated RSA Conference speaker and is frequently called upon to present at international national and local conferences for Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Information Systems security Association (ISSA) Management Information Systems Training Institute (MISTI) COSAC Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services T.E.N. and others. Fitzgerald serves on the HIPAA Co