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Job Interviews: Part 2 Conducting the Security Interview - The Big 10
This is the second of two posts about interviews (the first post is here ). In this one I’ll focus on interviewing candidates and the...
Oct 5, 202417 min read
Job Interviews: Part 1 Acing the Security Interview - 10 Top Tips
This is the first of two posts about interviews. In this one I’ll focus on interviewing for a role. In the next one we’ll look at how to...
Sep 21, 202411 min read
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...
Jun 1, 20248 min read
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...
May 18, 20244 min read
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...
Apr 20, 202410 min read
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...
Feb 24, 202413 min read
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...
Feb 10, 20245 min read
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....
Jan 27, 20249 min read
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...
Dec 30, 20235 min read
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...
Dec 16, 20233 min read
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...
Dec 2, 202310 min read
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,...
Oct 21, 202312 min read
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,...
Oct 7, 202316 min read
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...
Aug 26, 20236 min read
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...
Aug 12, 20234 min read
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...
Jul 29, 202314 min read
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,...
Jun 17, 202319 min read
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...
Jun 3, 20238 min read
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...
May 7, 202313 min read
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. //...
Apr 22, 20238 min read
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