2022-10-22



AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW!

CRC Press, a division of Taylor & Francis, one of the largest publishing and content groups in the world, has published Securing the Nation’s Critical Infrastructures: A Guide for the 2021-2025 Administration. CRC Press publishes over 7,000 new books each year and maintains a backlist of around 145,000 titles, with specialties in Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM content.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Securing the Nation’s Critical Infrastructures: A Guide for the 2021–2025 Administration is intended to help the United States executive administration, legislators, and critical infrastructure decision-makers prioritize cybersecurity, combat emerging threats, craft meaningful policy, embrace modernization, and critically evaluate nascent technologies.

The book is divided into 18 chapters that are focused on the critical infrastructure sectors identified in the 2013 National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), election security, and the security of local and state governments. Each chapter features viewpoints from an assortment of former government leaders, C-level executives, academics, and other cybersecurity thought leaders.

Major cybersecurity incidents involving public sector systems occur with jarringly frequency: however, instead of rising in vigilant alarm against the threats posed to our vital systems, the nation has become desensitized and demoralized. This publication was developed to deconstruct the normalization of cybersecurity inadequacies in our critical infrastructures and to make the challenge of improving our national security posture less daunting and more manageable. To capture a holistic and comprehensive outlook on each critical infrastructure, each chapter includes a foreword that introduces the sector and perspective essays from one or more reputable thought-leaders in that space, on topics such as:

The State of the Sector

Emerging Areas for Innovation

Recommendations for the Future

HOW TO ORDER

AVAILABILITY: Available for pre-order. Item will ship after November 24, 2022

WHERE TO BUY: CRC Press On-Line Store and Amazon

AVAILABLE FORMATS: Hardback and eBook

This guide was inspired by the call for the whole nation to respond to cyber threats. Our hope is that the insights it contains will be used by our nation’s leaders to improve critical infrastructure resiliency and strengthen or national security. This document will help fortify the nation’s cyber security against compromise.

– Parham Eftekhari, Founder & Chairman, ICIT and Executive Vice President, The Cybersecurity Collaborative

It is incumbent upon ICIT to leverage our Fellows and partnerships to publish this compilation of subject matter experts’ essays and share grass roots and executive level recommendations with the current administration. The evolutionary process of cybersecurity depends upon the hyperconvergence of cyber dependencies, people, processes, and technology. Rather than fearing or ignoring cyber attacks, this document will help ensure the nations cyber resilience against compromise.

– Joyce Hunter, ICIT Executive Director

AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS in alpha order

ICIT authors are an elite group of nationally recognized cybersecurity and national security leaders who keenly understand the power of meaningful engagement and recognize the importance of the ICIT mission. Authors including:

Matt Barrett – Founder and Director, US CyberDome

Timothy Bengson – Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Sherwin-Williams

Will Berriel – Sales Engineer, Checkmarx

The Center for Internet Security

Krishnan Chellakarai – CISO, Gilead Sciences Inc.

Donald R. Davidson Jr. – Director Cyber-Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM) Programs, Synopsys

Jerry L. Davis – Founder, Gryphon X, LLC & Vice President, Chief Security Officer at Pacific Gas and Electric Company

José de Arimatéia da Cruz – Professor, Georgia Southern University

Timothy L. Callahan – Senior Vice President, Global Security & Chief Security Officer, Aflac

Dr. Darren Death – ICIT Fellow

Michael Deck – Regional Sales Manager, Checkmarx

Marcela Denniston – Co-Founder and President, Cyber Lantern

Joseph Drissel – Founder and Director, US CyberDome

Daniel Ehrenreich – Consultant and Lecturer, SCCE

John Eckenrode – Director, Guidehouse

Parham Eftekhari – Founder and Chairman, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

John Fanguy – Director, Federal, iProov

Alycia Farrell – President, Grey Tarian

Glenn S. Gerstell – Former General Counsel, United States National Security Agency

Chris Grove – Product Evangelist, Nozomi Networks

Glen Gulyas – Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Onclave Networks, Inc.

Tyler Healy – Vice President and Head of Security, DigitalOcean

Donald Heckman – Director, Guidehouse

Joyce Hunter – Executive Director, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

Joey Johnson – CISO, Premise Health

Suzette Kent – Former US Federal Chief Information Officer

Itzik Kotler – Co-Founder and CTO, SafeBreach

Robert F. Lentz – President and CEO, Cyber Security Strategies, LLCPeter Liebert – Founder, Liebert Security, CISO, Cerner Government Services, & Commander of Cyber Operations, The California State Guard

Edward J. Liebig – Adjunct Professor, Webster University

Chris Luras – Partner, Guidehouse

Donald Maclean – Chief Cyber Security Technologist, DLT

Dr. Ron Martin – Professor of Practice for Critical Infrastructure, Capitol Technology University

Dr. Ian McAndrew – Dean of Doctoral Programs, Capitol Technology University

Scott McBain – Sales Engineer, Checkmarx

Stanley J. Mierzwa – Director of the Center for Cybersecurity, Kean University

Rita Reynolds – CIO, National Association of Counties

Dr. Nikki Robinson – Security Architect, IBM & Adjunct Professor, Capitol Technology University

Travis Rosiek – Former Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, BluVector

Justin Ruth – Lead Sales Engineer, Checkmarx

Rusty Sides – Public Sector Technical Sales Director, Checkmarx

Hitesh Sheth – CEO and President, Vectra AI

Dr. Bradford Sims – President, Capitol Technology University

Pete Slade – CTO and Chief Scientist, ThreatWarrior

Jason Smith – Faculty, Coast Guard Chair, National War College

Drew Spaniel – Lead Researcher, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

Lauren Spath-Caviglia – Lecturer, Kean University

Dave Summitt – Former CISO, Moffitt Cancer Center

Brigadier General (ret.) Francis X. Taylor – Executive Director, US CyberDome

Matthew Travis – Former Deputy Director, CISA

Laura Whitt-Winyard – Former CISO

THANK YOU TO OUR UNDERWRITERS



Content Inquiries: Contact Dr. Kathryn McGiver | kathryn@icitech.org

Media Inquiries: Contact Catherine Squeo | catherine@icitech.org

The post Announcement | CRC Press Publishes Securing the Nation’s Critical Infrastructures appeared first on ICIT (Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology).

Show more