Is Complexity the Enemy of Security?
Since the last post about leverage points in managing complex systems I thought it would be good to revisit and update a post from a few...
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- Sep 9
- 14 min
Leverage Points - A Cybersecurity Perspective
Security is an emergent property of the complex systems we inhabit. In other words, security isn’t a thing that you do, rather it's a...
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- Aug 26
- 6 min
Security Budgets - Supply and Demand
Unless you’re doing continuous or quarterly budgeting, which some organizations do, then you’ll no doubt be getting ready for the long...
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- Aug 12
- 4 min
Building Balanced Security Teams - Updated
As an industry we spend a lot of time talking about workforce development and skills shortages. However, we tend not to talk about how to...
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- Jul 29
- 14 min
Confessions of a Public Speaker - Tips for Security Practitioners
Many of us have to regularly speak in public at a range of events large and small, public and private, staged and ad-hoc. As your career...
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- Jul 15
- 13 min
Resilience Engineering - Step by Step
Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts is an excellent collection of standalone essays, woven into a consistent whole on the...
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- Jul 1
- 3 min
AI Consequence and Intent - Second Order Risks
There is a lot of good discussion and emerging methods to manage the risks of AI in various forms from training data protection, model...
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- Jun 17
- 19 min
Work / Life Balance
I have always struggled to balance work and life. Many years ago I realized I wasn’t so much struggling to achieve an effective balance,...
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- Jun 3
- 8 min
Delivering Security at Scale: From Artisanal to Industrial
Maturing a security program in any type of organization is not just to increase specific control effectiveness but also to increase its...
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- May 20
- 10 min
You Only Get 3 Metrics - Which Ones Would You Pick?
Just over a year ago I put out this blog post on the 10 fundamental (but really hard) security metrics. Since then I’ve discussed this...
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- May 7
- 13 min
The Illusion of Choice : A Review
In the last post we talked about the challenges and opportunities of using individual and organizational incentives to ensure effective...
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- Apr 22
- 8 min
People and Security Incentives
Force 6 : People, organizations and AI respond to incentives and inherent biases but not always the ones we think are rational. //...
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