Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

RickHoward and Steve Winterfeld are best friends, have known each other for more than 20 years, and for the entire time, have argued about everything under the sun, including cybersecurity issues. Brandon Karpf is a colleague of Rick's at The CyberWire where one of his most onerous tasks is to keep Rick straight in terms of facts and clarity. With a nod to Stephen King, these guys are here to keep Rick from turning into a literary gasbag.

Rick is the chief analyst and senior fellow at The CyberWire, the world's largest B2B cybersecurity podcast network, and the chief security officer (CSO) of N2K (The CyberWire's parent company). His prior jobs include CSO for Palo Alto Networks (a commercial cybersecurity vendor), CISO for TASC (a defense contractor), GM for iDefense (a commercial cyber threat intelligence service at VeriSign), global SOC director for Counterpane (one of the original managed security service providers), and commander for the U.S. Army's Computer Emergency Response Team (responsible for coordinating network defense, network intelligence, and network attack operations for the Army's global network). He was one of the founding organizers of the Cyber Threat Alliance (an ISAC for security vendors), and he also created and still participates in the Cybersecurity Canon Project (a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for cybersecurity books). He has years of experience creating and building organizations from scratch or transforming existing organizations into ...