Cybersecurity: The Executive's Guide to Reducing Risk, Strengthening Defenses, and Protecting What M

Most small business owners believe their cybersecurity is in reasonable shape. Their I.T. person handles it. Something is installed on the computers. Nobody has told them there is a problem.

The problem is that nobody has asked.

This book contains fifteen questions that change that. They are not technical questions. They are plain-English questions that any CEO can ask in a single meeting and receive answers that tell them whether their cybersecurity is genuinely functioning or simply assumed to be. The difference between those two things is the difference between a business that finds its gaps before an attacker does and one that finds them after.

The questions cover the areas where small business cybersecurity most commonly falls short. Whether your endpoint protection is centrally managed or just installed and forgotten. Whether your security subscriptions are current on every device. Whether anyone would actually know if an attack were in progress right now. Whether your alert process goes anywhere useful when something fires. Whether your staff have ever been tested with a simulated phishing email, and what the results showed.

They also cover things most owners have never thought to ask about. What access your I.T. provider has to your environment and how that access is secured. What a stolen laptop actually exposes. Whether former employees still have active credentials somewhere. How your remote workers are protected compared to someone sitting in the office. What your I.T. person has been meaning to raise but has not gotten around to.

Each chapter explains why the question matters, what a good answer looks like, what a poor one reveals, and what to do next. Chapter Sixteen has follow-up questions for each of the fifteen. Chapter Seventeen is a one-page action checklist you can print and bring to the meeting.

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