Protect your small business with practical cybersecurity knowledge and a clear plan for stronger defenses.
Small Business Cybersecurity: Principles, Risk Management, and Practical Defense - Volume 1 helps business owners, managers, IT professionals, and students understand cyber risks and protect the information, accounts, and systems that support everyday operations.
Across 19 chapters, this volume explains why small businesses are targeted, how cyber threats evolve, and how people, processes, and technology work together to reduce risk. Readers learn to identify business assets, assess vulnerabilities, strengthen security culture, and choose safeguards that fit their organization's needs.
Topics include identity and access management, password security, multifactor authentication, phishing prevention, network and Wi-Fi security, endpoint and mobile protection, encryption, backups, data loss prevention, application security, and cloud services.
Turn cybersecurity concepts into informed business decisions. Learning objectives, business examples, diagrams, practical exercises, checklists, and review questions with answer explanations support both study and application. A 90-day quick-start guide helps readers organize their initial security priorities.
Whether you are building your first small-business cybersecurity program, improving existing protections, or studying information security and risk management, Volume 1 provides a structured foundation for practical defense.
Volume 1 of a two-volume reference. This volume covers foundations, asset and risk identification, and protective controls. Volume 2 continues with threat detection, incident response, recovery, governance, compliance, and supplementary resources.