Information Security for Small and Midsized Businesses

by Greg Schaffer, Erin Kelley (editor)

Small and midsized businesses (SMBs) are outgunned by cybercriminal and activist organizations focused on stealing anything they can leverage to obtain financial gains, perform corporate espionage, further political agendas, and pursue other objectives. Every organization, no matter the size, is a target.




Many SMBs assume a large budget is necessary to mount an effective defense against these actions, yet this is often not the case. Information security is not just a technology issue; at its core, it is about managing risks to combat threats.




This book provides SMBs and other interested parties with practical risk management principles and information they can apply to implement and maintain a pragmatic and functional information security program, from a subject matter expert with over 34 years of experience.




Whether you are handling the leadership of an information security program in-house with existing resources or enlisting the services of a virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO), Information Security for Small and Midsized Businesses will help you make risk-informed decisions to keep your SMB's information as secure as possible.

130 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 27, 2024

About the author

I am a Christian, husband, father (to rescue dogs), veteran, and information security executive consultant. My novels include Forgiveness (2014), Leaving Darkness (2018), and Fatherhood (in progress, planned for 2024 release). I also have published Summer’s Drowning (2013), a collection of poems, and From the Loft (2017), a collection of horse-humor articles.

I wrote my first novel (unpublished) in high school. It sits in some nondescript box in my basement in its original form on various types of ruled paper. Perhaps one day I will resurrect it.

I began work on what would eventually become Forgiveness in 1991 as a method to deal with my divorce. I found myself fantasizing about “what if” scenarios. What if we hadn’t married early? What could I have done differently to prevent the pain I struggled with daily? I needed to live that fantasy, at least through writing. I wrote in the basement wood-paneled bedroom of my post-divorce house I shared with three others, I wrote during lunch at work in my cubicle, and anywhere I could find a few free minutes away from the world.

The positive reactions to Forgiveness urged me to create a prequel focused on one mysterious character. With Temptations of the Innocent, I created such a complicated world comprising of this life and a fictionalized (certainly not Biblically based) version of the afterlife. I didn’t stop there, adding in an antagonist who is pure evil (if not the devil himself) and a Soviet plot to infiltrate the Catholic church. This title is currently not available as I retool it as Before Forgiveness.

In January of 2017, I received a God nudge to pick up the pen again. I sketched out a three-act story on a piece of paper that would tell the story of healing through small group ministries. I had at that time been involved with one such ministry for several years and was very passionate about it, having seen firsthand the positive changes this eight-week group had on people willing to change. Leaving Darkness was published in the fall of 2018.

My work in progress is Fatherhood, a story about abortion from the father’s point of view.

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