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Free Chapter: Can Enterprise Security Risk Management Help YOUR Security Program?

December 13, 2018 By p r

How Can Enterprise Security Risk Management (ESRM) Help Your Security Program?

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You will:

Explore how security has traditionally been viewed both inside and outside of the security profession.
Understand how ESRM can change the perception of security in your enterprise to help you better communicate the value of security risk management.
See how ESRM is the best methodology to meet the changing global security risk climate.

Are you interested in getting published?

November 29, 2018 By p r

Are you interested in getting published?

Rothstein Publishing publishes and distributes industry-leading, current content digitally and in print globally.

We would like to hear about your ideas. For starters, we don’t even need a completed manuscript. We are willing to look at your book idea at any stage of development, whether it’s a few ideas sketched on a napkin or a completed manuscript – or at any stage in between. Our team of editorial and subject matter experts will work with you at every step of the planning, writing, rewriting, editing, and publication of your work.

Creating a Culture of Cybersecurity

November 29, 2018 By p r

Creating a Culture of Cybersecurity

Even the best made cybersecurity governance programs cannot predict every situation that should be guided by a principle or policy. At some point, you will have to rely on the employees of your organization to do the right thing. How do you train every employee to do the right thing every time? The answer is you cannot; no amount of training will accomplish this. What you must do is change the culture of cybersecurity over time where doing the right thing becomes intuitive. Training will help, but is not the sole answer.

Root Cause Incident Investigation Problems and Solutions

November 27, 2018 By p r

Common Root Cause Investigation Problems and Solutions

The following are typical reasons why most root cause incident investigation programs fail to live up to the organization’s expectations, from the book Root Cause Analysis Handbook: A Guide to Efficient and Effective Incident Investigation.

There Is No Business Driver to Change

If the organization is performing acceptably with its current practices, then there is no significant driver to get personnel to change from their current behavior. The organization and the individuals in the organization need a reason to change, as most people do not like change. Investigating and learning from mistakes usually requires a change in the organization’s mind-set or behavior, and a powerful reason is needed to drive such change. This driver must be clearly tied into the rollout of the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) program.

FREE CHAPTER: Governance in the Resilient Organization

November 16, 2018 By p r

Get your free chapter on Governance in the Resilient Organization from the book Principles and Practice of Business Continuity Tools and Techniques, by Jim Burtles.

In the first 15 chapters of Jim Burtles’ book, you learn how and why you might approach the development and delivery of a successful and effective business continuity (BC) program. This process has involved exploring the tools, techniques, and products.

By now, you should be in a position to practice this discipline in a professional manner, and this book has focused on the detail level at which BC is expected to operate and prove to be beneficial. Now, in this chapter, intended for both the experienced BC practitioner and a person entering the profession, you have a chance to look upwards and outwards to see where BC fits within your organization’s hierarchy and how it might filter upwards and penetrate downwards, as BC is integrated into your corporate culture.

Hack the Vote 2: Cyberrisks to Election Infrastructure

October 16, 2018 By p r

In 2018, some of the cyber risks and vulnerabilities to America’s election infrastructure are no longer hypothetical. Whether in revelations about the extent of meddling in the 2016 presidential election or in proof-of-concept hacks by researchers testing for weaknesses, there are documented vulnerabilities throughout the system.

Meet me at Continuity Insights in NYC next week

October 12, 2018 By p r

I’m looking forward to attending the Continuity Insights conference in New York City on Monday, October 22, 2018.

If you’re attending, be sure to introduce yourself.

If you haven’t already registered, REGISTER HERE NOW!

– Philip Jan Rothstein, FBCI

Five Guiding Crisis Leadership Principles

October 12, 2018 By p r

Bruce T. Blythe counsels these Five Guiding Crisis Leadership Principles in his landmark book, BLINDSIDED: A Manager’s Guide to Crisis Leadership.

Your organization may want to add to this list. For example, if you are in an industry that can cause environmental damage, protection of the environment may also be one of your guiding principles during crisis response. In a pharmaceutical company that conducts testing on laboratory animals, your guiding principle may be to endorse animal rights laws.

In any case, guiding principles for crisis response that are established prior to your next critical incident can be a crisis leadership roadmap throughout the organization for strategic crisis decision-making. Following these five principles can help crisis managers overcome unrecognized character flaws that can emerge when blame, chaos, high-consequence threat, and other stress-inducing situations are involved.

FREE CHAPTER: Getting Leadership Ready for Crisis

September 27, 2018 By p r

Crisis management may be defined as the exercise of common sense at lightning speed. Importantly, the effectiveness of crisis communication during the hours, days, and weeks it takes to resolve and recover from an event will prove essential to preserving the reputation, credibility, and morale of your organization.

My years of experience and observation of crisis response have made it abundantly clear that every business and organization is vulnerable to mistakes, mishaps, surprise events, and human error. We are all vulnerable! However, experience also demonstrates that it is a prudent organization that has studied its vulnerabilities, identified those that present the greatest risk, and gets ready with what it must do and say to respond quickly and effectively in the face of a crisis.

– Jim Lukaszewski

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FREE CHAPTER: Business Continuity Project Startup and Management

September 6, 2018 By p r

How Do You Start Up and Manage YOUR Business Continuity Project?

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If your organization is starting out on Business Continuity Management, the enormity of the tasks that lie ahead of you can seem overwhelming. That is why it is crucially important to get the scope right, to set realistic limits for the early projects, and to put these within an overall program that will eventually lead to an integrated, comprehensive approach to protect the total assets of the enterprise. The only way to eat the Business Continuity elephant is “a bite at a time.”

This FREE chapter shows how to prepare and manage YOUR business continuity project.