Security, Audit and Leadership Series
About the Book Series
The scope and mandate for cybersecurity and internal audit continues to evolve each year, as does the complexity of the business environment and speed of the changing risk landscape in which it must operate.
The fundamental goal of this exciting series is to produce leading-edge books on critical subjects facing security and audit executives and practitioners.
Key topics addressed include Leadership, Cybersecurity, Security Leadership, Privacy, Strategic Risk Management, Auditing IT and Technology, and Audit Management and Leadership.
If you're interested in submitting a proposal for a book to be included in the series, please email the series editor, Dan Swanson: [email protected]
One Line at a Time: Turning Life’s Deficiencies into Unique Value Propositions
1st Edition
By Robinson De Jesús
April 15, 2027
Robinson De Jesús spent over fifteen years in field of Internal audit; as a Corporate Auditor inside Kraft Foods, Merrill Lynch, and Moody's, learning to find risk before it found you, as well as a software consultant and management team member for an audit management solution, helping ...
Risk in Praxis: A Reflexive Reader
1st Edition
By Mia Sally Correia Bucci
April 15, 2027
Risk in Praxis is a reflexive reader for risk takers in managing the effect of uncertainty on the achievement of outcomes as either professional risk managers within an organization, or individual professionals managing risk within an organization. Risk in Praxis rests upon two assumptions: one, ...
THE RESILIENCE LEADER: Lessons Learned from 40 Years of Crises and Recovery
1st Edition
By Lyndon Bird
April 07, 2027
The book provides a fascinating view of this often-misunderstood subject, written by an industry insider who has been involved since the beginning. It explains not only the WHAT, but also the WHY, WHO, and WHEN of how the discipline emerged and grew. It provides an easily readable view of where the...
Enterprise Architecture Debt: Why Transformations Fail and How to Fix the Invisible Constraints
1st Edition
By Nadzeya Stalbouskaya
April 01, 2027
Every organisation believes it has an architecture. Few can say what it actually is, or what it is quietly costing them to keep. Enterprise Architecture Debt argues that well-funded, well-governed transformations fail to deliver not from poor execution, but from the accumulated weight of ordinary, ...
Organizational Debt: Why Your AI Projects Fail
1st Edition
By Scott O. Andersen
March 25, 2027
Organizational Debt and AI Failure: Why Your AI Project Fails challenges the assumption that unsuccessful artificial intelligence initiatives are primarily caused by weak models, insufficient computing power, or poor technology choices. Instead, Scott Andersen argues that AI often fails because it ...
The CISO Paradox: Responsibility without Authority in Cybersecurity Leadership
1st Edition
By Rob Caswell
March 10, 2027
The buck stops with the CISO. But does the power? Every Chief Information Security Officer knows the position: accountable for the security of the enterprise, yet unable to override the product shortcuts, procurement deals, and executive risk calls that create exposure. When a breach makes ...
Trigger-Based Governance: When Oversight Must Shift from Monitoring to Judgment
1st Edition
By Kaori Ito
March 10, 2027
Why do governance failures continue to occur even when organizations have extensive controls, reporting systems, audit functions, and formal oversight structures? “Trigger-Based Governance” (TBG) argues that the problem often lies not in the absence of information, but in the transition from ...
Project Economics Under Uncertainty: From Concept to Realization
1st Edition
By Murray Cantor, Christian Smart, Glen B. Alleman
February 24, 2027
Despite decades of advances in project and program management, far too many projects still fail. Some collapse under cost overruns, as the A380 Freighter and the UK's National Programme for IT did. Others, such as the Concorde supersonic airliner, are delivered successfully but are economic ...
Operational Resilience: Frameworks, Strategies, and Applications
1st Edition
By Raman Narasimhan, Parthasarathy Ramaswamy
February 19, 2027
Operational resilience is no longer only about business continuity plans, disaster recovery sites or crisis manuals. Organisations fail when critical services are interrupted, technology dependencies break, data integrity is compromised, vendors underperform, insiders exploit control gaps, or ...
Secure Nation by Design: Embedding Cybersecurity into the DNA of Nations
1st Edition
By Jessamy Perkins, Tania Ezra
February 16, 2027
In an era where nations, governments and organisations are increasingly dependent on digital systems, cybersecurity can no longer be treated as a purely technical discipline. Secure Nation by Design argues that resilience must be embedded into the foundations of modern societies, institutions and ...
Adaptive Cybersecurity Leadership: How to Grow as a Cybersecurity Leader in the Real World of Risk and Resistance
1st Edition
By Carlos Morales, Rick Doten
February 04, 2027
Cybersecurity professionals build their careers by finding answers, solving problems, and becoming the person others call when something goes wrong. Then the role changes. Your value begins less on being the expert with the answer and more on helping others understand risk, make decisions, accept ...
Controlling Privacy and the Use of Data Assets - Volume 3: AI and Data Security
1st Edition
By Ulf Mattsson
February 01, 2027
This book is about one core shift: AI is changing how we think about security, privacy, and data—but the fundamentals still matter more than ever. Underneath the technical detail, the message is simple. If you don’t have strong data discipline, access control, and governance in place, AI will scale...