Dan Lohrmann: I would like to thank the amazing team that helped bring this book together, starting with the industry thought leaders who provided personal stories, lessons learned, and best practices to share, especially Bill Nash, Doug Copley, Deb Snyder, Earl Duby, Kevin Ford, Carlos Kizzee, Scott Larsen, Mark Stamford, Mike Davis, Nancy Rainosek, Mark Weatherford, and Renault Ross. Your insights and frontline experiences battling cyberattacks bring emergency cyber incidents to life for readers. You're the best, and I greatly appreciate your contributions to this book.
Special recognition is due to the great team at Wiley, starting with our editor, Julie Kerr, who greatly improved our manuscript. Thanks go out to Chloé Miller-Bess, Dawn Kilgore, Jeanenne Ray, Philo Antonie Mahendran, and Sally Baker, who made the book possible.
An extra-special thanks to my coauthor, Shamane Tan, who is passionate, faithful, kind, and has been a true joy to work with throughout this journey.
I would also like to thank my wife Priscilla and my family, who always encourage and support my writing. You light up my life.
Finally, I would like to thank God, who has granted me countless blessings, knowledge, and the unique opportunity to write this book with Shamane.
Shamane Tan: There are plenty of people who helped bring this book to fruition, and I am grateful to all of them. Thank you especially to this generation of leaders who took the time to share their stories and experiences with me as well as giving back to our community. Special thanks to Steve Katz, Gregory J. Touhill, King Lee, John Yates, Theo Nassiokas, Yuval Illuz, Doug Witschi, Preston Miller, Ang Leong Boon, Shao Fei Huang, Venkatesh Subramaniam, Kevin Kok-Yew Tan, Todd Carroll, Doron Sivan, Michael Cracroft, and Melissa Agnes.
To our incredible industry leaders and readers who are passionately fighting against cyber crisis at the frontlines and striving to make the world around us a safer place, this is for you. I would also like to express my thanks to my wonderful Cyber Risk Meetup community and partners who have rallied behind, supported, and inspired me over the years. Chris Cubbage, Ian Yip, Daniel Barratt, Cindi Wirawan, Vivienne Mutembwa and Nokan Konan, you are but a few special friends who have been integral in my many milestones. I also cannot forget my Privasec | Sekuro team, especially Romain Rallu, Prashant Haldankar, and Karan Khosla – your heart for our industry and passion for security have taught me much.
A huge shout-out to my coauthor, Dan Lohrmann, for his passion, wisdom, and amazing energy. It is God-incidental that our paths crossed years ago when I was writing my first book. To our editor Julie Kerr, thank you for your most excellent help, and to the Wiley publishing team – Jeanenne Ray, Sally Baker, Dawn Kilgore, Philo Antonie Mahendran, and Chloé Miller-Bess – it has been an absolute pleasure working on this book together with this dream team.
Finally, I would like to thank my mum, dad, my two younger brothers, special loved ones, and dear friends, who have always cheered me on in any of my endeavors – my world is bright because you are in it. Above all, I am most grateful to God for His love and favor that I have experienced throughout this journey.