{"product_id":"ransomware-readiness-for-accountants-and-auditors-practical-controls-audit-procedures-financial-reporting-risks-and-incident-response-for-modern-f-9798185652879","title":"Ransomware Readiness for Accountants and Auditors: Practical Controls, Audit Procedures, Financial Reporting Risks, and Incident Response for Modern F","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alessio Faccia\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Security - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRansomware Readiness for Accountants and Auditors is a practical professional guide for finance teams, auditors, internal auditors, CFOs, audit committees, and governance professionals who need to understand ransomware through the lens of accounting systems, internal controls, audit evidence, cyber insurance, financial reporting, and incident response.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRansomware is no longer only an IT issue. It affects ERP systems, payroll, billing, treasury, procurement, bank interfaces, cloud accounting platforms, outsourced providers, audit evidence repositories, tax records, and board reporting. A ransomware incident can stop payroll, delay supplier payments, interrupt customer billing, weaken cash visibility, expose personal data, disrupt the audit timetable, trigger legal duties, and create difficult financial reporting judgements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explains how accountants and auditors should prepare before an incident, act during disruption, and assess the consequences after recovery. It covers access controls, multi-factor authentication, privileged accounts, segregation of duties, backup controls, immutable storage, recovery testing, payment controls, supplier master data, bank mandates, monitoring controls, reconciliations, control testing, tabletop exercises, internal audit reviews, and evidence collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book also examines the accounting and audit consequences of ransomware. Readers will learn how to assess recovery expenses, legal fees, forensic costs, system restoration, lost revenue, cyber insurance claims, provisions, contingent liabilities, impairment, going concern, subsequent events, regulatory reporting, data protection duties, audit communication, stakeholder disclosure, and post-incident reporting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for professionals who need clear direction, this book connects cybersecurity risk with financial control and assurance. It helps readers ask sharper questions, test control reality, protect cash, preserve records, prepare audit evidence, support insurance claims, and report ransomware effects to boards and audit committees with precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRansomware Readiness for Accountants and Auditors is suitable for: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCFOs and finance directors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExternal auditors and audit partners\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInternal auditors and risk managers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccounting professionals and controllers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAudit committee members and board advisors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCyber risk and compliance professionals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePayroll, treasury, procurement, and reporting teams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessional service firms handling client records\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book gives readers a structured framework for ransomware readiness across four connected areas: finance exposure and governance, internal controls and prevention, incident response and financial reporting, and post-incident assurance. It treats ransomware as a financial governance issue, not a technical side problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders seeking a practical guide to ransomware risk, accounting controls, audit procedures, cyber insurance, data protection, financial reporting, and board-level cyber resilience will find a detailed professional reference built for real organisational pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48211323945111,"sku":"9798185652879","price":2955.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798185652879.webp?v=1788719395","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ransomware-readiness-for-accountants-and-auditors-practical-controls-audit-procedures-financial-reporting-risks-and-incident-response-for-modern-f-9798185652879","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}