Essential Attributes of Security Leadership
Since I first wrote this back in 2021 (titled "CISO: Archeologist, Historian or Explorer?") it seems ever more true that complex and...
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- Sep 10
- 13 min
Crucial Questions from Governments and Regulators
In this, fourth and final post in the series of Crucial Questions I’m going to focus on those from governments and regulators. This...
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- Aug 27
- 23 min
Crucial Questions from CISOs and Security Teams
In this, third in a series of Crucial Questions posts I’m going to focus on the questions from CISOs and security teams. This builds on...
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- Jul 31
- 11 min
Crucial Questions from CEOs and Boards
Over the past few years I have done a lot of speaking at conferences, events and small group settings for Board directors and corporate...
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- Jul 16
- 3 min
3 Year Review
I’ve been doing this blog for around 3 years, largely succeeding in posting every 2 weeks. I have learnt a lot in this process and I...
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- Jul 2
- 5 min
The Reporting Line of Security Teams / CISOs - Updated
This can be an emotive topic for many people. It is one, I’ve found, colored more by dogma than nuance (as it seems with many things...
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- Jun 4
- 8 min
Career Advice and Professional Development
I often get asked for advice about careers and professional development. Unfortunately I don't have the time to do this in person, except...
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- May 8
- 9 min
Regulatory Relationships
For some reason there have been a few people already in or moving into highly regulated industries, like finance or healthcare, that have...
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- Apr 21
- 3 min
The Stress and Joy of Security Jobs - Updated
There’s a lot going on in the world from conflict, crime, economic and many other pressures. Many of these matters have security...
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- Feb 12
- 18 min
Organizational Politics
At every stage in your career and in every part of your role you are going to have to deal with organizational politics. By this, I don’t...
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- Jan 29
- 16 min
Secrets of Successful Security Programs - Part 2
As introduced in the last post, a successful security program is made up of two distinct elements: A series of episodic big bets that...
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- Jan 15
- 11 min
Secrets of Successful Security Programs - Part 1
A successful security program (although I imagine this advice could apply to any discipline) is made up of two distinct elements: A...
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- Jan 1
- 7 min
The Obvious CISO : Don’t Overlook the Simple
There is a great little book I read recently, “Obvious Adams - The Story of a Successful Businessman", it’s available on Amazon, but it’s...
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- Dec 4, 2021
- 8 min
How is the Security Profession Doing?
I spoke on a CIISEC panel a few months ago about the state of the information security profession. This post is based on remarks I made...
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- Nov 20, 2021
- 4 min
Security Program Tactics - Updated
When starting or reinvigorating a security program, focus on a small number of meta-objectives that can have sustained outsize effects in...
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- Nov 6, 2021
- 6 min
Slipstreaming : Business Tactics for Security & Control Implementation
One of the most frequent cybersecurity binary thinking curses is that just because senior leadership in organizations won’t do every...
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- Oct 22, 2021
- 4 min
Conferences and the Wider Security Eco System Culture - Toxic or Not?
This could be part of another whole series on the curse of binary thinking so please read this in that tone. In other words, I’m trying...
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- Aug 14, 2021
- 9 min
Risk = Hazard + Outrage
There are four major insights that, above all others, have influenced my approach to security and risk management over the past decades....
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- Jul 16, 2021
- 8 min
Cybersecurity - The Board's Perspective
How Boards, especially public company Boards, oversee cybersecurity is a crucial but difficult topic. This previous post discussed how...
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- Jul 3, 2021
- 6 min
Cybersecurity and the Curse of Binary Thinking
Working in information/cybersecurity and technology risk is a fascinating and challenging career, as I’ve covered here. There is, mostly,...
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