Preface

This is the first book in a series that makes the complex topic of cybersecurity as simple, clear, and actionable as possible (and hopefully a little more fun, too ☺).

In today’s continuously changing world, people face overwhelming complexity while trying to protect business assets from cybersecurity attacks.

Zero Trust enables business, technical, and security teams to work together to reduce risk in the face of continuously evolving attackers and threats, business models, cloud technology platforms, Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovations, and more.

The Zero Trust Playbook Series helps demystify cybersecurity and Zero Trust by breaking them down into discrete, actionable components to guide you through the strategy, planning, and execution of a Zero Trust transformation.

These books provide clear and actionable role-specific guidance for everyone from board members and CEOs to technical and security practitioners. They will help you understand Zero Trust, why it is important, what it means to each role, and how to execute it successfully. The series integrates 0 best practices and guidance to avoid common mistakes (antipatterns) that slow you down and drive up risk.

These books enable individuals and organizations to do the following:

• Modernize security programs to increase effectiveness and reduce daily toil, suffering, and wasted effort resulting from classic security approaches
• Securely enable digital business models to increase agility and reduce friction and business risk
• Successfully execute individual role tasks to grow your skills, knowledge, and career

These books are designed to help you thrive in the security aspects of your role (and career) while helping your organization prosper and stay safe in today’s world.