Cybersecurity
without
the Enterprise
Budget.
A practical, no-nonsense field guide for protecting small and medium businesses from modern cyber threats, without the enterprise budget. Frameworks, checklists, templates, and a deep treatment of AI: the attacks it powers, the defenses it enables, and how to govern your own use of it.
Generative AI changed
the threat model.
This edition treats AI security as a first-class concern across every chapter, not a final-chapter afterthought.
Modern Threat Landscape
AI-powered attack tooling, deepfake-enabled BEC, and the new economics of phishing at scale.
AI-Generated Phishing
How AI has collapsed the trade-off between volume and quality of phishing, and what to do about it.
Data Classification in the AI Era
A four-tier classification scheme with concrete handling rules for which AI tools are permitted at each level.
AI Vendor Due Diligence
Training opt-out, retention, sub-processors, agent authorization boundaries, output guarantees, and customer obligations.
AI Governance Roadmap
Where AI policy, training, and monitoring fit in a 12-month security roadmap that an SMB can actually execute.
AI Acceptable Use Policy
A 14-section AI AUP template covering approved tools, prohibited data, agent permissions, verification, IP, and disclosure.
Inside the field guide
You do not need to be the most secure organization in your industry. You need to be secure enough that attackers move on, and resilient enough to recover when prevention fails.
From Cybersecurity Without the Enterprise Budget
Written for the people who actually decide.
Start from zero.
The business has no formal security program. The need is clear, but the starting point and priorities are not.
→ Chapters 1–4, then jump to 15Fix a specific problem.
Responding to a concrete concern: phishing attempts, an audit, a vendor requesting documentation, a recent close call.
→ Use the TOC to jump inMature an existing program.
The basics are in place. The focus is on harder questions: AI governance, vendor risk, compliance, and measurable maturity.
→ Focus on 7, 8, 12, 15, & Appendix GOne book.
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Common questions.
Owners, executives, IT generalists, MSP customers, and operations leaders at businesses with roughly 5 to 500 employees. No prior security background is assumed.
Both. The field guide is written so a CEO or operations lead can read it cover-to-cover and understand every decision, while an IT lead or MSP can use it as a working reference. Every acronym is defined and every “why” explained before the “how.”
A 113-page professionally typeset PDF, a Word (DOCX) version with a live table of contents and editable templates, and a print-ready cover. All three are sent immediately on purchase.
Yes. Buyers of the 2026 edition receive any 2026-edition revisions and the next edition at a discount. Threats evolve; the field guide evolves with them.
Yes, that is the point. The Acceptable Use Policy, Incident Response Plan, Vendor Questionnaire, Awareness Checklist, and AI Acceptable Use Policy are provided in editable form. Bracketed placeholders mark what to fill in, and each template includes a warning to have it reviewed by qualified counsel before adoption.
Yes. If the field guide is not useful within 30 days, contact support for a full refund. No friction.