RISK & CYBERSECURITY

In most organizations you are constantly upgrading your security controls. This is for many reasons, including: New threats induce higher risk exposure and r...

It can be irritating to receive e-mails from vendors during a time of crisis, like now, with the spin that their products can help. It is wrong, however, to ...

In this coming decade there will be 5 major themes that differentiate great security programs, products, features and processes. These are different from ove...

Everyone is deluged with approaches from product and service vendors, small and large. Even vendors struggle to keep track of who their competitors are in an...

It can be hard to effectively assess, with a suitable degree of rigor, the security of your suppliers, counter-parties or companies you are about to invest i...

It’s that time of year for all the predictions of what to expect for the next year, and now - the next decade. I’m generally not a fan of these - they’re eit...

The management of insider threats is a complex and often under-thought process - people who work on it appreciate the subtlety and difficult trade-offs. Some...

Much focus of risk mitigation is about implementing controls: preventative, detective and reactive. This is necessary in most cases, and continuous sustainme...

I was at an event recently where one participant talked passionately about a disaster they had that they have since preserved artifacts from in a physical sp...

To fix anything sustainably requires long term action. This is especially true in technology risk and cybersecurity. The trouble is this is also a space wher...

A few months ago there was this whole thing about the stress of security roles, CISOs self-medicating, and a whole range of burn-out talk. Ok, yes, security ...

Cybersecurity is not the only technology risk, in fact, when you total up actual losses it is likely not even the biggest risk. Although I think it is the ri...

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

I don’t see much written on vulnerability management in more holistic terms vs. patch/bug fixing. This might be ok given a lot of vulnerability mgmt. should ...

I see a lot of commentary on the need to “treat cyber/info-security as a business issue not an IT issue”. The problem is it implies that this is not still al...

As I get older and (hopefully) wiser it has become ever more apparent that all the issues and risks we face arise from a small number of basic “forces”. Thes...

Having read many people’s strong-held views on this topic I thought I’d add to the mix. Despite a lot of people now inevitably thinking “is this the hill you...

I've increasingly found, with respect to coding, security has come full circle. Those of us who started in the 80's/90's had to code (or stitch together) stu...

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