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The books document the evolution of Patrick's thinking from Integrated Assurance to the larger question of Business Survivability.

  1. Cover of Integrated Assurance: Unified Risk Strategy by Patrick Hayes, showing a gold cube of business and risk symbols

    Integrated Assurance

    The foundational argument for treating assurance as one coordinated activity rather than a set of separate functions reporting on the same business.

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  2. Cover of Relevant Impact: A Field Guide to Integrated Assurance by Patrick M. Hayes, showing a gold sphere assembled from cubes

    Relevant Impact

    The practical companion volume: how Integrated Assurance is applied inside a working organization, and how impact is judged.

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  3. Cover of Can We Insure This? Second Edition by Patrick M. Hayes, showing a processor chip marked with a skull on scattered currency

    Can We Insure This?

    Written for business leaders rather than technologists, on what cyber risk, AI and insurance actually mean for the continued operation of a company.

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Patrick M. Hayes — Integrated Assurance and Relevant Impact, the #1 new book in risk management on Amazon
Cover of Integrated Assurance: Unified Risk Strategy by Patrick Hayes, showing a gold cube of business and risk symbols

Security, Audit and Leadership Series

Integrated Assurance

Unified Risk Strategy

Integrated Assurance sets out the case that most organizations do not suffer from a shortage of assurance work. They suffer from assurance work that has been divided so thoroughly that no one can assemble it into a view of the business.

Cover of Relevant Impact: A Field Guide to Integrated Assurance by Patrick M. Hayes, showing a gold sphere assembled from cubes

Security, Audit and Leadership Series

Relevant Impact

A Field Guide to Integrated Assurance

Relevant Impact moves from framework to practice. It addresses the question that follows any assurance model, which is how an organization decides what deserves attention when everything can be described as a risk.

Cover of Can We Insure This? Second Edition by Patrick M. Hayes, showing a processor chip marked with a skull on scattered currency

Independently published · Second Edition

Can We Insure This?

A Business Leader's Guide to Cyber Risk, AI, Insurance, and Business Survivability

Can We Insure This? began with a question executives ask in almost every serious risk conversation, and one that rarely has a straightforward answer. The second edition extends that discussion into AI and into Business Survivability.