RISK & CYBERSECURITY

A successful security program (although I imagine this advice could apply to any discipline) is made up of two distinct elements: A...

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...

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...

When starting or reinvigorating a security program, focus on a small number of meta-objectives that can have sustained outsize effects in...

One of the most frequent cybersecurity binary thinking curses is that just because senior leadership in organizations won’t do every...

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...

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...