Security, Audit and Leadership Series
About the Book Series
The scope and mandate for cybersecurity and internal audit continues to evolve each year, as does the complexity of the business environment and speed of the changing risk landscape in which it must operate.
The fundamental goal of this exciting series is to produce leading-edge books on critical subjects facing security and audit executives and practitioners.
Key topics addressed include Leadership, Cybersecurity, Security Leadership, Privacy, Strategic Risk Management, Auditing IT and Technology, and Audit Management and Leadership.
If you're interested in submitting a proposal for a book to be included in the series, please email the series editor, Dan Swanson: [email protected]
I WILL: Where Champions Are Built: The Mental, Strategic, and Tactical Formula for Leading Boldly and Living Without Limits
1st Edition
By Douglas P. Pflug
March 18, 2027
You are not broken. But something is not right. You are still showing up, still performing, still carrying everything that needs to be carried. From the outside, life may look successful. Yet somewhere along the way, you stopped feeling like yourself. You keep moving forward because that is what ...
Organizational Debt: Why your AI projects fail
1st Edition
By Scott O. Andersen
March 11, 2027
Organizational Debt and AI Failure: Why Your AI Project Fails challenges the assumption that unsuccessful artificial intelligence initiatives are primarily caused by weak models, insufficient computing power, or poor technology choices. Instead, Scott Andersen argues that AI often fails because it ...
Secure Nation by Design: Embedding Cybersecurity into the DNA of Nations
1st Edition
By Jessamy Perkins, Tania Ezra
February 24, 2027
In an era where nations, governments and organisations are increasingly dependent on digital systems, cybersecurity can no longer be treated as a purely technical discipline. Secure Nation by Design argues that resilience must be embedded into the foundations of modern societies, institutions and ...
Adaptive Cybersecurity Leadership: How to Grow as a Cybersecurity Leader in the Real World of Risk and Resistance
1st Edition
By Carlos Morales, Rick Doten
February 09, 2027
Cybersecurity professionals build their careers by finding answers, solving problems, and becoming the person others call when something goes wrong. Then the role changes. Your value begins less on being the expert with the answer and more on helping others understand risk, make decisions, accept ...
Operational Resilience: Frameworks, Strategies, and Applications
1st Edition
By Raman Narasimhan, Parthasarathy Ramaswamy
February 09, 2027
Operational resilience is no longer only about business continuity plans, disaster recovery sites or crisis manuals. Organisations fail when critical services are interrupted, technology dependencies break, data integrity is compromised, vendors underperform, insiders exploit control gaps, or ...
Responsible AI by Design: A Practical Guide to AI Technology, Risks, and Governance Frameworks (Volume I)
1st Edition
By Dr. Alan Tang
January 14, 2027
A practical roadmap for governing AI systems with confidence, clarity, and control. Artificial intelligence is reshaping industries faster than most organizations can govern it. As AI adoption accelerates, so do the risks, ranging from regulatory non-compliance and security vulnerabilities to ...
Controlling Privacy and the Use of Data Assets - Volume 3: AI and Data Security
1st Edition
By Ulf Mattsson
January 13, 2027
This book is about one core shift: AI is changing how we think about security, privacy, and data—but the fundamentals still matter more than ever. Underneath the technical detail, the message is simple. If you don’t have strong data discipline, access control, and governance in place, AI will scale...
Strategic Internal Auditing in the Digital and ESG Era
1st Edition
Edited
By Suhaily Shahimi, Fazlida Mohd Razali, Mohd Daniel Mohd Nassir
November 12, 2026
Strategic Internal Auditing in the Digital and ESG Era explores the changing role of internal audit in response to digital transformation, ESG accountability, cybersecurity threats, fraud risks, and increasing stakeholder expectations. Covering both foundational concepts and applied practices, the ...
The Hive: A Fable of Fear, Governance and Transformation, Volume 1
1st Edition
By Brian Albertson
October 26, 2026
The hive is thriving, at least that is what everyone believes. Beneath the polished reports, constant productivity, and tightly controlled order, something dangerous has been growing unnoticed. When a mysterious illness begins spreading through the worker bees, fear moves quickly through the hive. ...
The Hive: A Fable of Fear, Governance and Transformation, Volume 2
1st Edition
By Brian Albertson
October 26, 2026
The illusion is gone, now the real test begins. The crisis inside the hive exposed more than a spreading illness. It revealed years of silent compromise, fragile leadership and systems that could no longer carry the weight placed on them. The hive survived the awakening. But survival and recovery ...
The CISO Playbook: The Adversarial Mindset
1st Edition
By Andres Andreu, Hector Monsegur
October 23, 2026
Guiding security leaders and executives who hold the privilege of defending modern organizations, The CISO Playbook: The Adversarial Mindset is a leadership-focused blueprint for outmaneuvering adversaries that iterate relentlessly. In an era where attackers view corporate defenders as “dumb, weak,...
Governing AI Risk—The RIVER Charter: An Enterprise Resilience Standard
1st Edition
By Alex Golbin
September 25, 2026
THE AI CRISIS IS FICTIONAL. THE BLUEPRINT IS REAL. By 2038, autonomous agents will manage trillions of dollars in global assets. But when speed outpaces governance, efficiency becomes fragility. Governing AI Risk blends a near-future thriller with a field manual for leaders who can’t afford blind ...