- Introduction
- Security Standards
- Organizational Readiness
- Agile Security
- Adversaries
- Risk Management
- Policies, Privacy and User Management
- Asset and Configuration Management
- Network and Infrastructure Security
- Vendor and Supply Chain Management
- Security Budgets
- Data Protection
- System Hardening and Vulnerability Management
- Application Security
- Monitoring and Audit
- Incident Response
- Business Continuity
- Physical Security
- Security Tooling
- Frontier Technologies
- Maturity, Metrics and Ongoing Work
- Policy Authoring with Markdown and AI
- Security Automation in Practice
- Quantitative Risk Modeling
- Standards Reference
- Glossary
- NIST 800-53 Control Mapping
Building An Agile Security Program
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You don't need a massive budget or a team of consultants to build a security program that actually works. Building an Agile Security Program gives startup founders and CTOs a step-by-step, NIST-aligned playbook with 300+ prioritized tasks, runnable automation code, and the practitioner voice of someone who's done it a hundred times.
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Your company just landed a meeting with a Fortune 500 prospect, and the first question is: "Can we see your SOC 2 report?" Or maybe an investor wants to know about your security program before writing the check. You know you need to do something, but the security industry has made it intimidating — dense standards, expensive consultants, compliance frameworks built for companies ten times your size.
Building an Agile Security Program is the guide I wish I'd had when I started helping companies tackle this problem twenty years ago. It walks you step by step through building a real security program aligned to NIST 800-53, organized into manageable sprints, with prioritized checklists that map to specific controls. No fluff, no sales pitches — just a practitioner's playbook grounded in the experience of building and improving security programs at nearly a hundred companies. Whether you're a CTO wearing six hats or a first security hire figuring out where to start, this book gives you the map.
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Matt Konda
Matt Konda was the CEO of Jemurai and former Global Board Chair of OWASP, the Open Web Application Security Project. He recently finished a gig running security for IonQ, a publicly traded quantum computing company.
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