Sylvan Press
Field-tested, plain-English references for the people who do the work and stand behind their call.
Sylvan Press is the book imprint of Sylvan Assurance. Each franchise is a three-volume set — Learn, Run, Operate — on the same security and compliance topics as our toolkits, plus two standalone titles. Where a toolkit hands you the playbook to run, the books explain the judgement behind it.
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The library
A practitioner's field guide to securing AI and ML systems: the threats that are real, the controls that work, and the security discipline that unifies them. Three-volume set.
Companion to the AI Security Assessment toolkit.
A practitioner's field guide to cloud security: the shared-responsibility model in practice, the control domains, operations and incident response, and the templates that carry the programme. Three-volume set.
Companion to the Cloud Security Assessment toolkit.
A small-business field guide to the cyber-insurance renewal: what each question on the form means, what counts for each control, how to answer honestly, and what evidence to keep so you are ready when you claim.
Companion to the Cyber Insurance Readiness Assessment toolkit.
An incident response field guide to the four hours after the phone rings: the universal playbook, the same playbook at four organisational sizes, and the templates for the live moment. Three-volume set.
Companion to the First 4 Hours toolkit.
A practitioner's field guide to GDPR: the law as a working compliance machine, breach and enforcement, and the templates and worksheets that operationalise both. Three-volume set.
Companion to the GDPR Checklist toolkit.
A field guide to building and running a product security incident response team (PSIRT): the function, the advanced cases, and the templates and decision trees for the work. Three-volume set.
Companion to the PSIRT Response toolkit.
A field guide to answering customer security reviews without a security team: triage, the answer library, evidence, and turning the questionnaire into an asset.
Companion to the TrustReady toolkit.
A four-category security framework for small-business owners without an IT team: what to do, in what order, and how to know it is working.
Companion to the SMB Security Assessment toolkit.
A plain-English field guide to SOC 2 for small teams: getting audit-ready, the audit and continuous operations (with ISO 27001 alongside), and the templates and worksheets that make it routine. Three-volume set.
Companion to the SOC 2 Audit-Readiness Assessment toolkit.
A practitioner's field guide to vulnerability management: prioritising by real risk not raw counts, running the programme, and the templates and runbooks that keep it consistent. Three-volume set.
Companion to the Vulnerability Management toolkit.
How the books relate to the toolkits
Every Sylvan Press book stands on its own, but each set deepens the thinking behind a Sylvan Assurance toolkit. A toolkit gives you the playbook to run today; the field-guide volumes explain why the playbook is shaped the way it is; the Operator’s Workbook (Volume 3) turns the method into the documents you actually produce. You can read the books without owning the toolkit, and use the toolkit without reading the books. They reinforce each other; they do not require each other.
Titles, formats, and availability are not final and may change before publication. We will publish prices and order links here when each book goes on sale.