Cyber Minds brings together an unrivalled panel of international experts who offer their insights into current cybersecurity issues in the military, business, and government.

Key Features

• Explore the latest developments in cybersecurity
• Hear expert insight from the industry's top practitioners
• Dive deep into cyber threats in business, government, and military

Book Description

Shira Rubinoff's Cyber Minds brings together the top authorities in cybersecurity to discuss the emergent threats that face industries, societies, militaries, and governments today.

With new technology threats, rising international tensions, and state-sponsored cyber attacks, cybersecurity is more important than ever. Cyber Minds serves as a strategic briefing on cybersecurity and data safety, collecting expert insights from sector security leaders, including:

• General Gregory Touhill, former Federal Chief Information Security Officer of the United States
• Kevin L. Jackson, CEO and Founder, GovCloud
• Mark Lynd, Digital Business Leader, NETSYNC
• Joseph Steinberg, Internet Security advisor and thought leader
• Jim Reavis, Co-Founder and CEO, Cloud Security Alliance
• Dr. Tom Kellerman, Chief Cybersecurity Officer for Carbon Black Inc and Vice Chair of Strategic Cyber Ventures Board
• Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer, Oracle
• Dr. Sally Eaves, Emergent Technology CTO, Global Strategy Advisor – Blockchain AI FinTech, Social Impact award winner, keynote speaker and author
• Dr. Guenther Dobrauz, Partner with PwC in Zurich and Leader of PwC Legal Switzerland
• Barmak Meftah, President, AT&T Cybersecurity
• Cleve Adams, CEO, Site 1001 (AI and big data based smart building company)
• Ann Johnson, Corporate Vice President – Cybersecurity Solutions Group, Microsoft
• Barbara Humpton, CEO, Siemens USA

Businesses and states depend on effective cybersecurity. This book will help you to arm and inform yourself on what you need to know to keep your business – or your country – safe.

What you will learn

• The threats and opportunities presented by AI
• How to mitigate social engineering and other human threats
• Developing cybersecurity strategies for the cloud
• Major data breaches, their causes, consequences, and key takeaways
• Blockchain applications for cybersecurity
• Implications of IoT and how to secure IoT services
• The role of security in cyberterrorism and state-sponsored cyber attacks

Who this book is for

This book is essential reading for business leaders, the C-Suite, board members, IT decision makers within an organization, and anyone with a responsibility for cybersecurity.

Table of Contents

1. Integrating Humans and Technology – Four Steps to Cyber Hygiene
2. How Risky Behavior Leads to Data Breaches
3. Blockchain – The Unwritten Chapter on Cybersecurity
4. Cybersecurity in the Cloud – What You Need to Know
5. The World's Biggest Data Breaches – Proactive and Reactive Approaches
6. Trends in Cybersecurity
7. Staying Cybersecure in the IoT Revolution
8. Cyberwars – Bringing Military Lessons to Modern Information Security
9. Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) be Trusted to Run Cybersecurity?
10. Conclusion

About the Author

Shira Rubinoff is a recognized cybersecurity executive, cybersecurity and blockchain advisor, global keynote speaker, and influencer who has built two cybersecurity product companies and led multiple women-in-technology efforts. She currently serves as President of the NYC-based technology incubator Prime Tech Partners and the social-media-security firm SecureMySocial. She also serves on the boards of the Executive Women's Forum for Information Security, Leading Women in Technology, the blockchain company Mainframe and the artificial intelligence (AI) companies TrueConnect and Pypestream.

An expert in the human factors of information technology and security, Ms. Rubinoff was named one of New Jersey's Best 50 Women in Business, was named by CSO Magazine as a Woman of Influence, was honored by CSO and the EWF with their "One to Watch" award, and was honored as the 2017 "Outstanding Woman in Infosec" by the CyberHub Summit. She has also been calculated by analysts to be the top female cybersecurity influencer globally on social media. Ms. Rubinoff also created numerous video series, including a series of interviews with the top executives of the most prominent cybersecurity and technology companies. She has published many articles, and lectures, on topics related to the human factors of cybersecurity, blockchain, and related topics, and holds several patents/patents-pending in areas related to the application of psychology to improve information technology and cybersecurity.