Someone Else's Debt

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Welcome to the Leanpub Launch video for Someone Else's Debt: A Quantitative Framework for Cyber Diligence at Deal Speed https://leanpub.com/someone_elses_debt by Yolonda Smith! 00:00 Introduction to Someone Else's Debt 00:18 Yolonda's cybersecurity background and acquisition experience 01:21 Why cyber teams are often the last to know about deals 01:51 Building a repeatable cyber diligence framework 02:40 Why cyber diligence matters in M&A 04:28 Why cybersecurity gets overlooked in acquisitions 06:18 Turning cyber risk into dollar figures 07:23 The five pillars of the framework 09:24 Integration risk and post-close remediation costs 09:50 Cybersecurity as risk mitigation, not just cost 11:22 What traditional cyber diligence reports miss 12:21 Why big consulting approaches can be too slow 13:02 The limits of heat maps and qualitative findings 14:10 Biggest cybersecurity exposure: unmanaged assets 15:18 AI, data sprawl, and governance risk 16:11 Who should read the book 17:01 Closing remarks 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. Thank you for watching, please like and leave a comment, we'd love to hear from you! Please Subscribe and Follow! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/leanpub X: https://x.com/leanpub Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leanpub Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leanpub Create Your Own Leanpub Book! You can create your own book anytime here: https://leanpub.com/create/book Here's the tutorial showing how to write and publish a Leanpub book in your browser (it's free!): http://help.leanpub.com/en/articles/2932527-getting-started-writing-a-book-in-the-web-browser-writing-mode If you're a Leanpub author and you'd like to submit your own Launch video for us to publish, or if you'd like to record a Launch video with Len, please go here: https://leanpub.com/launch. #books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #leanpub #writing #businessitalignment #Risk #computersecurity