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by Phil Quade (Author)
Cybersecurity experts from across industries and sectors share insights on how to think like scientists to master cybersecurity challenges
Humankind's efforts to explain the origin of the cosmos birthed disciplines such as physics and chemistry. Scientists conceived of the cosmic 'Big Bang' as an explosion of particles--everything in the universe centered around core elements and governed by laws of matter and gravity. In the modern era of digital technology, we are experiencing a similar explosion of ones and zeros, an exponentially expanding universe of bits of data centered around the core elements of speed and connectivity. One of the disciplines to emerge from our efforts to make sense of this new universe is the science of cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is as central to the Digital Age as physics and chemistry were to the Scientific Age. The Digital Big Bang explores current and emerging knowledge in the field of cybersecurity, helping readers think like scientists to master cybersecurity principles and overcome cybersecurity challenges.
This innovative text adopts a scientific approach to cybersecurity, identifying the science's fundamental elements and examining how these elements intersect and interact with each other. Author Phil Quade distills his over three decades of cyber intelligence, defense, and attack experience into an accessible, yet detailed, single-volume resource. Designed for non-specialist business leaders and cybersecurity practitioners alike, this authoritative book is packed with real-world examples, techniques, and strategies no organization should be without. Contributions from many of the world's leading cybersecurity experts and policymakers enable readers to firmly grasp vital cybersecurity concepts, methods, and practices. This important book:
- Guides readers on both fundamental tactics and advanced strategies
- Features observations, hypotheses, and conclusions on a wide range of cybersecurity issues
- Helps readers work with the central elements of cybersecurity, rather than fight or ignore them
- Includes content by cybersecurity leaders from organizations such as Microsoft, Target, ADP, Capital One, Verisign, AT&T, Samsung, and many others
- Offers insights from national-level security experts including former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell
The Digital Big Bang is an invaluable source of information for anyone faced with the challenges of 21st century cybersecurity in all industries and sectors, including business leaders, policy makers, analysts and researchers as well as IT professionals, educators, and students.
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"For the busy CISO, The Digital Big Bang is a gift of time, which is our most limited resource. This book was comparable to having a private discussion with 33 interdisciplinary cybersecurity leaders (our equivalent of experts in varied fields of scientific research) at a place and time convenient to me." --Jim Motes, CISO, Gamestop
"The Digital Big Bang is the collective wisdom of leading CISOs and experts. It elucidates cybersecurity like a science with connections to digital advancements moving towards the future." --Dr. Ho Pui-Tak, Director of IT Services, The University of Hong Kong
We need to treat cybersecurity like a science.
The digital big bang is an explosion of bits, and the birth of what's becoming the digital age. Everything in our cyber universe is centered around the core elements of speed and connectivity, like the cosmic universe is centered around matter, gravity, and time.
In the science of cybersecurity, we need to identify the fundamental elements, how they relate to one another, and work with them scientifically. Today's cybersecurity leaders featured in The Digital Big Bang use hypotheses and observation to reach conclusions in cybersecurity that will empower us to thrive in the Digital Age.
With contributions from cybersecurity leaders from organizations across the private sector, public sector, and academia, including:
- ADP
- Alaska Airlines
- AT&T
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- Capital One
- CT Cubed Inc
- Cyber Threat Alliance
- Equinix
- Fortalice
- Ingram Micro
- Intuit
- Levi Strauss & Co.
- MGM Resorts International
- Microsoft
- NSA
- PIMCO
- Riverside Health
- RWJBarnabas Health
- Salesforce
- Samsung
- Stanford
- TAG Cyber
- Target
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Verisign
Author Biography
Phil Quade is the CISO of Fortinet. Phil brings more than three decades of cyber intelligence, defense, and attack experience, working across foreign, government, and commercial industry sectors.
