To help businesses who don’t have the resources of large companies, we present three books created specifically for small businesses. The first book, by Gary Hayslip, is divided into six sections and provides advice across a wide variety of topics. Included are checklists, action plans and advice from a security executive with decades of experience. Gary maintains a narrative in each chapter that doesn’t lose track of the reality that small businesses have both many of the same cybersecurity problems as their larger counterpart but a host of additional challenges, including the maturity of the organization and the difficulty of focusing the management team on issues that aren’t immediate operational imperatives.

The second book, by Alan B. Watkins, provides a roadmap for small businesses who need to create a formal program and has been updated for CIS Controls (R) version 8. Whether the program is required by insurers, regulators, investors or as a blueprint for addressing risks to which the company is exposed, Alan walks through the process of creating the plan assuming a non-technical team approach accessible to all.

The third and fourth books are by Bill Bonney and David Goodman. Protect Your Business: A Small Business Guide to Basic Network Security is written for small business owners and covers the unique security issues affecting small businesses. Protect Your Practice: Basic Cybersecurity for Healthcare, Legal and Financial Professionals offers additional advice addressing special circumstances pertaining to clients and patients, including extra data privacy concerns and compliance.