Incentives for Security: Flipping the Script
We’re getting it wrong on the messaging for incentives to do security - and people are pretending it’s landing when it isn’t. There are 5...
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- May 18
- 4 min
The Crucial Test of Security Leadership: A-grades vs. Pass/Fail
A major success marker of great security leaders and their teams is one simple prioritization technique: the ability to know what needs...
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- Apr 20
- 10 min
Security and Ten Laws of Technology
There are many well known, so called, laws of technology. Moore’s law being particularly emblematic. Let’s look at some of them and see...
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- Feb 24
- 13 min
The Power of Community: 5 Steps to Fast-Track Your InfoSec Career
As we start out, or even when entering a new stage of our careers, we realize the need to be connected to a professional community. For...
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- Feb 10
- 5 min
The 80 / 20 Principle
Ever since I first became familiar with the 80/20 principle, and other circumstances marked by Pareto distributions, I began to see...
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- Jan 27
- 9 min
Leadership Transitions - 10 Steps for Success
Many of us have been through several leadership transitions in our careers. It could be a new role in the same or different organization....
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- Dec 30, 2023
- 5 min
Top Ideas and Posts from 2023
Thankfully I managed to keep up the pace of 1 post every 2 weeks throughout 2023. Just when I think I might be running out of ideas, and...
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- Dec 16, 2023
- 3 min
The Art of Influencing - 7 Steps
A critical measure of success for most security roles is the ability to influence. I’ve often found people think influence skills are...
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- Dec 2, 2023
- 10 min
The Danger of Comparisons (There’s Always One Level Above)
No matter what you experience, what level of achievement, results or status you attain there is always something that might be perceived...
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- Oct 21, 2023
- 12 min
Career Development: 13 Formative Moments (Part 2)
The skills for your role and your leadership style build up throughout your career. But I’ve found, personally and in talking to others,...
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- Oct 7, 2023
- 16 min
Career Development: 13 Formative Moments (Part 1)
The skills for your role and your leadership style build up throughout your career. But I’ve found, personally and in talking to others,...
2,957 views
- Aug 26, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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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- Jun 17, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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 7, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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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- Dec 31, 2022
- 7 min
Simple Ways to Communicate Successes
It’s that time of year when you’ve inevitably written notes to your organization and leadership about all your team’s achievements over...
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- Nov 19, 2022
- 13 min
A New Way to Think : Review
I typically don’t do book reviews, but this book was impressive and it resonated with many information security and risk management...
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