The Illusion of
Cyber Governance
Why Proof Matters More Than Protection
Most organizations believe they know how well they are protected. The problem is the gap between what leadership believes is happening and what can actually be demonstrated.
What happens when assurance is mistaken for evidence?
The Illusion of Cyber Governance examines the space between cybersecurity activity and executive knowledge: the reports leaders receive, the assumptions organizations carry, and the evidence needed to know whether expected work is actually happening.
Written from more than twenty-five years of cybersecurity auditing experience, Elizabeth Wu takes the reader inside the governance gap that appears when organizations grow, responsibilities spread, and leadership can no longer personally see what is happening.
The question is not simply, “Are we protected?” It is: How do you know?
A different way to look at cyber governance.
The Illusion
Why confidence, reporting and activity can create a sense of governance without giving leadership the evidence it thinks it has.
The Governance Gap
How accountability, organizational memory and evidence can break down as companies become more complex.
Defensibility
Why proof, contemporaneous evidence and the ability to reconstruct what happened matter when leadership decisions are examined.
The conversation belongs in the boardroom.
The book includes a foreword by Thomas Zych, privacy and cybersecurity attorney.
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Why Proof Matters More Than Protection
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