The Second Economy

With the IT infrastructure under constant attack from a variety of players, large and small organizations are at a significant disadvantage without understanding the critical value of time in their IT security strategy. This book explores the value of time and trust in a world where cyberattacks are big business and economies are shifted from unsuspecting prey to insidious predators. The Second Economy gives IT professionals and business leaders the tools to put a value on security that ties to a companyΓÇÖs growth agenda, preparing them to compete for scarce resources to defend against a threat that is often overlooked until it is too late.

Written by three prominent industry experts in leadership positions at Intel Security, The Second Economy upends traditional security worldviews to better equip organizations to navigate an increasingly complex and dangerous threatscape. It provides IT decision makers with better ways of articulating the ROI of security for incremental investment.

What You Will Learn:

Understand the value of time and trust in a cyber-warfare world, enabling agile and intelligent organizations can minimize their risk of falling victim to the next attackHow to accelerate response time by adopting a holistic approach that eliminates friction across the threat defense lifecycle, from protection to detection to correctionHow to gain sustainable competitive advantage by seizing first mover advantage in deploying solutions across an open, integrated security framework

Who This Book Is For:
Senior-level IT decision makers concerned with ascribing business value to a robust security strategy. The book also addresses business decision makers who must be educated about the pervasive and growing cyber threatscape (including CXOs, board directors, and functional leaders)as well as general business employees to understand how they may become unwitting participants in a complex cyber war.