This book comes with 23 key lessons, including how to:
Billions of people use the services of critical infrastructure providers, such as ambulances, hospitals, and electricity and transport networks. This number is increasing rapidly, yet there appears to be little protection for many of these services.
IT solutions have allowed organizations to increase their efficiency in order to be competitive. However, do we even know or realize what happens when IT solutions are not working – when they simply don’t function at all or not in the way we expect? This book aims to teach the IT framework from within, allowing you to reduce dependence on IT systems and put in place the necessary processes and procedures to help protect your CII.
Lessons Learned: Critical Information Infrastructure Protection is aimed at people who organize the protection of critical infrastructure, such as chief executive officers, business managers, risk managers, IT managers, information security managers, business continuity managers, and civil servants. Most of the principles and recommendations described are also valid in organizations that are not critical infrastructure service providers.
Toomas Viira is a highly motivated, experienced, and results-orientated cybersecurity risk manager and IT auditor. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the IT and cybersecurity sectors.
In 2005, Toomas managed the creation of CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) Estonia, and in 2007 he was a member of the team that protected Estonia from large-scale cyber attacks. He is one of the main authors of the first Estonian Cyber Security Strategy and in 2009 was appointed head of the Critical Information Infrastructure Protection department at the Estonian Information System Authority.
Toomas has managed several national-level CII projects, such as mapping, risk analysis and operators’ penetration tests, and state-level emergency risk analysis and response plan development. He holds the following certifications: CISSP®, CISA®, CISM®, CRISC™, ISO 27001 CIS LI, and ITIL® Foundation. Toomas is the founder and CEO of ciipunit.com.