Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 Someone Else's Debt: A Quantitative Framework for Cyber Diligence at Deal Speed by Yolonda Smith
A deal closes. Eighteen months later, the breach hits. Cyber risk that wasn't priced into the deal architecture becomes a cost the acquirer absorbs alone — sometimes in the billions.
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About the Book
A deal closes. Eighteen months later, the breach hits. Cyber risk that wasn't priced into the deal architecture becomes a cost the acquirer absorbs alone — sometimes in the billions.
Quantitative Cyber Diligence is the framework that prevents this. Five pillars. Correlation-adjusted aggregation. A single dollar figure the investment committee can argue about. Calibrated, defensible, and reproducible across the deal-process lifecycle.
This is the practitioner's guide to running QCD engagements at deal speed — Tier 1 snapshots in seventy-two hours, Tier 2 full diligence in five days, continuous post-close monitoring across the multi-year hold period. Two worked examples, twelve operational chapters, five appendices, and the engagement-evidence learning loop that compounds calibration improvement across the engagement corpus.
About the Author
Yolonda Smith is a cybersecurity executive, startup founder, and U.S. Air Force veteran with over 20 years in the field. She has served as Head of Cybersecurity at Grubhub and sweetgreen — where she led security through the company's IPO — and as Business Information Security Officer at Target. She held product leadership roles at Pwnie Express and spent eight years as an Air Force Cyberspace Operations Officer. Yolonda is the founder and CEO of vCISO Lite, which delivers automated compliance and risk management for small and mid-size businesses. She holds a Certified CISO credential from Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College and maintains CISSP, CISM, GSEC, and GCIH certifications. She lives in Atlanta.
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