Communicating Cyber Risk

Build Cyber Resilience Through Compelling Communication
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-3986-2861-8
Verlag: Kogan Page

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

How can you communicate cyber risk in a way that builds trust and drives impact?

Communicating Cyber Risk is a practical guide for cybersecurity and risk leaders who need to translate complex threats into clear, actionable messages. As organizations face rising cyber attacks, the ability to communicate risk effectively is a critical skill for protecting operations, reassuring stakeholders and strengthening resilience.

Written by Nina Paine and Ashley Sweetman, this book draws on over 30 interviews with CISOs, executives and senior practitioners to share strategies, frameworks and real-world examples that help you implement communication that resonates at every level of the organization.

You'll learn how to:

- Break down complex risks into straightforward business and financial terms
- Apply communication principles that build credibility with leaders and regulators
- Implement strategies for incident response, media management and customer updates
- Optimize communication to foster stronger security-driven culture across teams
- Lead by modelling good practices and inspiring confidence

With detailed chapters and actionable guidance, Communicating Cyber Risk equips cybersecurity and risk professionals to apply proven methods, develop their influence and deliver lasting organizational impact.

Themes include: cyber risk strategy, cyber risk communication, incident response, cyber leadership, organizational resilience, security culture

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paine, Nina

Sweetman, Ashley

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung Netzwerksicherheit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmenskommunikation
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Computersicherheit Schadprogramme (Viren, Trojaner etc.)
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Risikobewertung, Risikotheorie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Versicherungswirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Communicating to the board; Chapter - 02: Translating risk into business terms - helping everyone understand the scale, size and consequences of cyber risk Chapter - 03: Building a security-focused culture; Chapter - 04: Managing crisis communication; Chapter - 05: Navigating communication between public and private sectors; Chapter - 06: The future of cyber risk (and what that means for communication); Chapter - 07: Conclusion: communication as the cornerstone of cyber resilience

Über Autor(innen)

Paine, Nina
Nina Paine is an enterprise leader with over 20 years' experience in cyber security and intelligence working in two global banks (Standard Chartered and Lloyds Banking Group) and at the UK's National Crime Agency. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Information Security and has previously served on their Board. She is based in London, UK.

Sweetman, Ashley
Ashley Sweetman is Director of Cyber Risk Insights for a London-based global bank. He is the author of Cyber and the City and is a Visiting Research Associate with the Emerging Threats Group at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in War Studies from King's College London. He is based in London, UK.

Nina Paine is an enterprise leader with over 20 years' experience in cyber security and intelligence working in two global banks (Standard Chartered and Lloyds Banking Group) and at the UK's National Crime Agency. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Information Security and has previously served on their Board.

Ashley Sweetman is Director of Cyber Risk Insights for a London-based global bank. He is the author of Cyber and the City and is a Visiting Research Associate with the Emerging Threats Group at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in War Studies from King's College London.