RISK & CYBERSECURITY

There are four major insights that, above all others, have influenced my approach to security and risk management over the past decades....

How Boards, especially public company Boards, oversee cybersecurity is a crucial but difficult topic. This previous post discussed how...

Working in information/cybersecurity and technology risk is a fascinating and challenging career, as I’ve covered here. There is, mostly,...

We continuously hear about the millions of unfilled cybersecurity roles, although I’ve yet to see a study that actually supports that...

A key part of any security leader's role is relationship management. In my experience this is another one of those leadership skills that...

This is my list of favorite books across the various professional disciplines I’m interested in. I have a set of favorite books that are...

I am a big fan of the concept of saying, “Hell Yes, or No” to decide whether to do something or not. Derek Sivers has written well about...

The success of a security program is largely determined by how well it is integrated into the fabric of the organization, in terms of...

Over the years I've noted the behaviors I’ve seen from consistently successful people. In this context I define success as a balance of...

Escalating issues is part of the foundation of any good risk and security program. Unfortunately, human nature is such that most people...

As an industry we spend a lot of time talking about workforce development and skills shortages. We tend not to talk about how to organize...

There are lots of problem solving techniques across many fields. These are often represented as mental models or behavioral short-cuts....

How you obtain and manage a budget to drive an adequate level of security is immensely important. Yet, it is one of the least discussed...

It is still somewhat frustrating that most of the dialog about the skills shortage in cybersecurity focuses, perhaps inevitably, on the...

In any sizable organization it is important to have some form of management steering group or committee to oversee your risk program. The...

How to represent cybersecurity (or technology / information risks more generally) to the Board is an ongoing subject of discussion in...

The underlying secret of most great security leaders and teams is one thing: the ability to know what needs to be done really well vs....

I’ve been using variants of these principles for many years in many contexts, both for security and broader risk management teams. I have...

Disagreement arises in many situations. It is an inevitable part of any work in any organization, or life in general. It is especially...

Resilience can be thought of as the ability to absorb shocks, adjust as needed and continue operation in the face of adversity. In other...