Praise for How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk

"I am excited to see a new method of risk management emerging from this book. Shifting from purely qualitative judgments and simplifications to a proven quantitative model that leverages measurements and the expertise of security professionals holds the promise for dramatically shifting how we manage cyber risk."
—Patrick Heim, head of Trust & Security, Dropbox; former chief trust officer, Salesforce.com

"A refreshing voice of reason in cybersecurity risk management. Richard and Douglas successfully rise above noisy security best practices and flashy methods; practitioners have a lot to gain from the clarity within this book's pages."
—Vinnie Liu, partner at Bishop Fox; author of Hacking Exposed; former NSA

"Cybersecurity has become one of the biggest risks facing companies today. There is a need to provide the tools and information for a CISO to become more of a chief information risk officer so they are better able to identify and prioritize risk, allocate resources, and develop effective risk mitigation strategies. This book helps to fill that need."
—Steve Katz, the first CISO

"At a time when forecasts tell you a great deal about the forecaster but nothing about the future, comes a practical guide for capturing and articulating risk in the board room with great success."
—Tim McKnight, CISO, GE; former CISO, Fidelity

What if your single biggest cybersecurity risk was the risk assessment method itself? Even if your approach to assessing this critical risk makes you feel more confident about your decisions, you may actually be making things worse. How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk presents real solutions by skillfully applying the quantitative language of risk analysis to information security.

As with his previous How to Measure Anything books, measurement expert Douglas Hubbard simplifies the complexity of quantifying uncertainty and sheds light on matters with little data or seemingly intangible goals—and here he taps cybersecurity influencer Richard Seiersen to dispel long-held beliefs about cybersecurity practices and provide authoritative guidance to solving problems by measuring risk. Together, they debunk popular risk scores and risk matrices and replace them with scientifically proven, yet practical, quantitative methods.

Immediately useful, this practical guide offers an easy path to better risk assessment by describing a very simple quantitative solution, building on it with more advanced methods, and providing detailed advice for choosing the one for your needs. Regardless of your current understanding of cybersecurity or statistics, everything inside is fully accessible and equips you with a potent collection of strategies and tools from today's top experts in cybersecurity and risk assessment. This complete resource gets you there start to finish by:

• Debunking the most common arguments against using quantitative methods in cybersecurity
• Modeling risk with a variety of simple and advanced techniques for enhancing the usefulness of data in times of great uncertainty using free, downloadable spreadsheets
• Detailing a dependable, organization-wide security metrics maturity model for continuous and measurable improvement

The thought process that goes into making informed decisions with sparse data points, using the described "Lens" method to reduce estimation errors, along with the many other techniques inside, will advance how you run cybersecurity as well as how you measurably improve other types of high-stakes decisions. How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk shows you nothing is immeasurable—including your peace of mind.