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The CISO Playbook
This book is designed to help you overcome your top challenges. Inside, you'll find common-sense approaches to easily integrate risk quantification into your existing practices for the results you need.
Getting your budget approved.
How to effectively communicate risk to the Board.
A better way to prioritize with limited resources.
Get control over your vulnerabilities.
Make better risk decisions.
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Companion Models Sold Separately
What's In The Book?
This is a step-by-step method for moving from qualitative to quantitative metrics in your risk management. Use analysis to make better risk-based decisions. Get started with advanced probabilistic methods to forecast cyber events, estimating operational and financial impacts for your organization.
Fundamentals
You'll get a great introduction to risk analysis and where it fits within the risk management process.
Controls Analysis
Understand how controls mitigate specific risks so that you can measure risk reduction.
Risk
Get clear on risk as the likelihood of a negative event with potential operational and financial impacts.
Risk Management
Move from qualitative to quantitative measures and learn how to justify the budget you need.
Probability
Probability is used to forecast the likelihood that a negative event (like an attack or data breach) will occur.
Impact
Get simple tools to estimate the financial costs associated with cyber-attacks.
Models
Use the entire set of models to analyze vulnerabilities, controls, scenarios and more.
Plays
Plays give you step-by-step on what to do and which models to use in each scenario.
Hi, I'm Charlene!
This book and the companion models reflect many of the key concepts I used in analyzing and quantifying cyber risk for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Now I'm making it possible for you to integrate this powerful kind of analysis and forecasting into your risk management program.
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Control Analysis
Easily correlate controls with direct mitigation for top cyber-attacks. Quantify risk and impact. Financial estimate worksheet included. Generate 1000 simulations instantly. Probability charts are perfect for including in reports.
Scenario Analysis
Use this to simulate any scenario and easily quantify the risk. Simulate 1000 probabilities instantly. Financial estimate worksheet included. Use to evaluate cyber risk, vulnerabilities, evolving threats, even 3rd party risks.
Vulnerability Analysis
Get deeper insights into your vulnerability data with this analysis worksheet. Identify which vulnerabilities are most likely to lead to initial access and privilege escalation. Statistics, graphs, and charts are auto-generated and are perfect for use in reports.
Quantitative Risk Register
Simple but powerful risk register for quantifying risks and aggregating them. Use categories to filter and use for effective communication of risk.
What People Are Saying
Marcia Klingensmith
FinTech Consultant
📘 Just cracked open The CISO Playbook: Mastering Risk Quantification and I’m already hooked.
✅ Pragmatic
✅ Easy to digest
✅ Packed with models you can actually use
This isn’t just another cybersecurity theory book — it’s a hands-on guide every CISO, risk manager, and project lead should keep in their back pocket. If you’ve ever struggled to justify budget, communicate risk to leadership, or pri
Anfal Shaikh
CISO
After completing my FAIR Certification I have taken dedicated coaching from Charlene Deaver-Vazquez to learn the implementation of cyber risk quantification with various methodologies and indeed her expertise in simplifying complex quantification models into actionable frameworks was truly impactful. 🙏
Cyber security isn’t just a cost — with CRQ, it becomes a strategic enabler of trust and perfo
Got questions?
SMB CISOs and their staff. Any CISO interested in transitioning from qualitative to quantitative and making better risk-informed decisions.
You'll get a thorough introduction to analysis, quantification and how these fit into the risk management process.
Often, decisions about risk are just opinions, affected by bias. By applying a repeatable scientific approach, you'll get deeper insights into the truth of the situation. This makes it easier for executives and board members to have increased faith in your recommendations.
Yes. No prior knowledge of risk analysis or quantification is required.
Absolutely. Even experienced CISOs can get something from the content and use of the companion models.
Yes. The concepts and models are designed to be used as-needed based on where you are in developing your risk management program. Start wherever you are, grow as you are ready.
The models are separated so that it is easier to use one at a time, as needed. The book is provided as a FREE download so that you can understand the concepts, what the models are, and how they work.
