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Cyber Insights Needed & Delivered
I thought I’d try something different and share some thoughts on the Cyentia Institute’s latest report, the Information Risk Insights...
Jun 284 min read
Segmentation Technologies / Zero Trust
This is an update to a post from 2001 which I’m revisiting in part because some things have changed, but also because (surprisingly) much...
Jun 142 min read
CISO / Cybersecurity Leader Job Description
There is a plethora of sample job descriptions for security leaders that are often strictly correct but can also be uninspiring or too...
May 313 min read
Scaling Security, AI and More....
I recently joined Clint Gibler (tl;dr sec) at RSA for a great discussion. In it we cover a wide array of topics from the challenge of...
May 201 min read
Starting a Security Program from Scratch (or re-starting)
I’ve had a number of requests to write a post about how to start and grow a new security program - or a substantial reassessment and...
May 1712 min read
CISO: Librarian, Archeologist or Explorer?
I first wrote this post back in 2021 so I thought it’s time for a revisit with an addition of a few more roles. We talk about attackers...
May 36 min read
Why Stuff Fails (“The Thermocline of Truth”)
For many years I’ve observed the same pattern of failure in projects, programs, issue mitigation and indeed anything that requires more...
Apr 195 min read
Security Programs - A Plan is Not a Strategy
Many security leaders, at all levels, correctly focus on having a good strategy and executing against that. However, many teams confuse...
Apr 55 min read
Security Leaders’ Reading List
I have a regular set of go to books both for myself and what I recommend to others at all stages in their career. Here they all are with...
Mar 226 min read
Turning the Security Flywheel
Jim Collins wrote a great little book called Turning the Flywheel to further develop an idea introduced in his book Good to Great to...
Mar 89 min read
Post Quantum Cryptography Migration: Time to Get Going
Quantum computing is advancing rapidly. Innovations from Google, Microsoft, IBM and others are pushing the boundaries of not just the...
Feb 228 min read
Stressed Testing: Practical Operational Resilience
Operational resilience is a concept that has gained even further traction. It first came to prominence from financial regulators, in...
Feb 813 min read
The CISO Factories: 12 Features of Organizations that Create Security Leaders
There are organizations that seem to have disproportionately created a large number of leaders who have gone on to be CISOs or other...
Jan 256 min read
Keys to Career Success
I’ve given variants of this talk at a few events in 2024 and received a lot of requests for the slides and a blog post. So here we go. ...
Jan 115 min read
Top Ideas and Posts from 2024
I managed to keep up the pace of 1 post every 2 weeks throughout 2024. Just when I think I might be running out of ideas, and the backlog...
Dec 28, 20246 min read
Regulatory Harmonization - Let’s Get Real
Every few months some association or other learned group of professionals makes a fresh call to action for cybersecurity regulatory...
Nov 30, 20247 min read
Risk Appetite and Risk Tolerance - A Practical Approach
If you work for a large organization, especially public or otherwise regulated companies, then you may well have faced the prospect of...
Nov 2, 202413 min read
Threat Hunting: Real World vs. Cyber World
It’s puzzling that there aren’t more articles comparing and contrasting wildlife hunting techniques with cyber threat hunting, or maybe...
Oct 19, 20247 min read
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
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