Digital Defense Diaries

Stories, Strategies, and Inclusion in Cybersecurity
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 979-8-8688-3158-4
Verlag: APRESS L.P.

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Cybersecurity has never been just about technology. It has always been about leadership, judgment, resilience, and the people responsible for protecting increasingly complex digital systems that power our modern world.

In this book, award-winning Chief Information Security Officer and internationally recognized cybersecurity leader Jelena Zelenovic Matone shares over two decades of experience navigating cyber risk inside financial institutions, critical infrastructure environments, international organizations, regulatory ecosystems, and global cybersecurity communities. Far more than a traditional technical handbook, this book combines practical cybersecurity guidance with deeply personal lessons learned throughout a career spent at the intersection of technology, governance, artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, operational resilience, supply chain security, digital sovereignty, and leadership under pressure.

Through real-world stories, strategic frameworks, future predictions, and candid reflections from the frontlines of cybersecurity leadership, readers gain a rare inside perspective on how modern organizations must prepare for an increasingly uncertain digital future. At the same time, the book serves as a powerful call for greater diversity and inclusion within technology, encouraging the next generation of professionals — particularly women — to challenge assumptions, break barriers, and help shape the future of cybersecurity itself. This is not simply a book about cybersecurity. It is a book about how technology, leadership, resilience, and human judgment will define the future of digital trust.

What You Will Learn:

• Understand the core principles that build strong cybersecurity foundations across modern organizations
• Build practical cybersecurity governance frameworks that improve operational resilience and reduce digital risk
• Identify emerging risks introduced by artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, supply chain dependency, and autonomous systems
• Navigate global cybersecurity regulations, including DORA, NIS2, GDPR, TIBER-EU, and modern compliance frameworks
• Prepare organizations for post-quantum cryptography and the future transition toward quantum-safe security
• Assess third-party technology risks and strengthen contractual cybersecurity protections across vendor ecosystems
• Develop leadership skills required to communicate cybersecurity risk effectively at executive and board levels
• Build stronger cyber resilience strategies focused on recovery, operational continuity, and crisis management
• Understand how modern geopolitics, digital sovereignty, and technology dependency are reshaping cybersecurity strategy globally
• Know how diversity, inclusion, and multidisciplinary thinking directly strengthen cybersecurity leadership and innovation

Who This Book Is For:

Cybersecurity professionals, CISOs, technology leaders, risk managers, IT professionals, cloud architects, compliance and governance professionals, board members, legal teams managing digital risk, students entering cybersecurity, and professionals seeking to understand how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing are reshaping the future of digital security, as well as individuals looking to build cybersecurity careers and leaders responsible for protecting increasingly complex digital ecosystems in highly regulated environments

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zelenovic Matone, Jelena

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Computersicherheit
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung Netzwerksicherheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: PERSONAL JOURNEY AND BUILDING THE CYBER MINDSET .- Chapter 1: The Long Road to Writing This Book.- Chapter 2: Hold the Cheese, Hold the Chaos.- Chapter 3: Breaking Into Cybersecurity: Building a Career in a World That Never Stops Changing.- PART II: CYBERSECURITY FOUNDATIONS: MASTERING THE BASICS BEFORE THE STORM .- Chapter 4: Hobbes, Hackers, and the High Stakes of Cybersecurity.- Chapter 5: It All Begins With Discipline: The Foundation of Strong Digital Controls.- Chapter 6: End User Computing: The Hidden Risk Organizations Still Underestimate.- Chapter 7: Vendor Risk and the New Era of Digital Dependency.- Chapter 8: When Legal Meets Coding (and Everyone's Sanity Hangs By a Thread).- Chapter 9: Project Management in the Digital Era: Protecting Transformation From Failure.- PART III: ADVANCED TOPICS AND THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL RISK .- Chapter 10: Cloud Security: The Bright Side and the Shadows We Often Ignore.- Chapter 11: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, and Cybersecurity: Governing Systems We Barely Understand.- Chapter 12: Living Off the Land: Inside a Modern Cyber  Intrusion.- Chapter 13: Cyber Resilience: Why Survival Matters More Than Prevention.- Chapter 14: Modern Cyber Threats: Ransomware, Deepfakes, Autonomous Attacks, and the New Digital Battlefield.- Chapter 15: Global Supply Chains and Systemic Cyber Risk in an Interconnected World.- Chapter 16: The Regulatory Maze: DORA, NIS2, GDPR, EU AI Act, TIBER-EU, and the Future of Digital Governance.- Chapter 17: The AI Revolution: The AI Revolution: Human Connection, Sovereignty, and the Future of Intelligence.-  Chapter 18: Quantum Computing and the Race to Protect Digital Trust.- PART IV: WOMEN IN CYBERSECURITY: LEADERSHIP, RESILIENCE, AND CHANGING THE INDUSTRY .- Chapter 19: Cyber Wars and Gender Gaps: Two Frontlines of the Same Battle.- Chapter 20: Breaking Codes and Breaking Barriers.- Chapter 21: Confessions of a Cybersecurity Gladiator: Lessons, Laughs, and Life Hacks From a Woman in IT.- Chapter 22: The Cyber Sisterhood: Why Inclusion Builds Stronger Security.- PART V: REFLECTIONS FROM THE FRONTLINES .- Chapter 23: 25 Lessons I Learned After Two Decades in Cybersecurity: Chapter 24: Cybersecurity 2035: Seven Predictions That Will Redefine Our Digital Future.- PART VI: BUILDING WHAT COMES NEXT .- Chapter 25: Building the Future: Why Our Cyber Ecosystem Must Evolve Together.- APPENDICES .- Appendix A: Glossary of Cybersecurity Terms.- Appendix B: PQC Vendor Assessment Questionnaire: A New Dimension in Vendor Risk.- Appendix C: The First 24 Hours: Incident Checklist.- Appendix D: Vendor Due Dilgence Question Set.- Appendix E: Tabletop Exercise Starter Kit.- Appendix F: One-Page Board Report Template.

Über Autor(innen)

Jelena Zelenovic Matone, PhD Eng. Candidate, MBA, CISA, CRISC, is an internationally recognized cybersecurity professional, award-winning Chief Information Security Officer, and global advocate for diversity in technology. She currently serves as Chief Information Security Officer at a major European institution, where she leads strategic cybersecurity governance, operational resilience, and digital risk oversight across complex environments.

Widely respected for her expertise in cybersecurity strategy, artificial intelligence (AI) governance, operational resilience, cloud security, regulatory compliance, post-quantum cryptography readiness, and digital transformation, Jelena has spent more than two decades working across financial institutions, international organizations, audit, enterprise risk management, and large-scale technology governance. She is the Founder and first President of Women Cyber Force Luxembourg and founding leader of Women4Cyber Luxembourg, dedicated to advancing diversity and inclusion across cybersecurity and STEM professions globally.

Jelena's international contributions have earned multiple prestigious recognitions, including CISO of the Year Luxembourg, Sentinel Global CISO Award, European CISO recognition, and Ambassador of the Year Luxembourg. Through her writing, speaking engagements, and leadership, Jelena remains committed to helping organizations navigate the future of cybersecurity while inspiring the next generation of technology leaders.