Start-Up Secure

Baking Cybersecurity into Your Company from Founding to Exit

By: Chris Castaldo

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Add cybersecurity to your value proposition and protect your company from cyberattacks

Cybersecurity is now a requirement for every company in the world regardless of size or industry. Start-Up Secure covers everything a founder, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist should know when building a secure company in today's world. It takes you step-by-step through the cybersecurity moves you need to make at every stage, from landing your first round of funding through to a successful exit. The book describes how to include security and privacy from the start and build a cyber resilient company. You'll learn the basic cybersecurity concepts every founder needs to know, and you'll see how baking in security drives the value proposition for your startup's target market. This book will also show you how to scale cybersecurity within your organization, even if you aren't an expert!

Cybersecurity as a whole can be overwhelming for startup founders. Start-Up Secure breaks down the essentials so you can determine what is right for your start-up and your customers. You'll learn techniques, tools, and strategies that will ensure data security for yourself, your customers, your funders, and your employees. Pick and choose the suggestions that make the most sense for your situation - based on the solid information in this book.

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Great resource!

This was a very broad and accessible primer, useful for anyone just getting started.

Fantastic book

The book was really insightful with a lot of actionable advice which can be easily implemented

A good primer for embedding security Into a company

This book helps organizations understand the nuances and issues into embedding a security program early into their architecture. It’s illustrates that security is not a bolt on function, but must be considered very early on to any new organization. It also shows the risks that are evident when security does not report correctly into the executives of the organization. Security has ceased to be an IT function, and is truly a corporate risk function. The CEO needs to be well apprised of the security Risks I need to understand the cost benefit of the remediation. I recommend this book to anyone who is starting a corporation, embedding security in an existing organization, And those who are looking to revisit various requirements that are needed to meet industry needs and risks.

This should be required reading for startups and existing businesses! Great material!

I’ve struggled with what to recommend to others getting into this field on up-leveling them without requiring they go out of their way to get certifications or a degree in the field. This has now become that book which I will be recommending to everyone!!

This is that perfect balance of just the right amount of depth so if people want to learn more they can go dig in on their own or stay broad and cover a vast range of topics. It should be required reading for every startup really!!