RISK & CYBERSECURITY

I see regular waves of articles and commentary that assert : “We are spending more and more on security but security incidents / breaches...

Let’s assume general purpose quantum computers that can operate usefully at scale are coming. I think a reasonable timeframe is 15 years....

Chesterton's Fence is a cautionary tale to make sure that before you change things you actually understand their purpose. This is particu...

Risk quantification, in any field, is not an end in itself. It exists to compel some action. That action might be to drive decisions or s...

Not all risks are possible to fully mitigate in every context, so you need to record and manage those residual risks. These are often put...

The codebreaking and overall intelligence success of Bletchley Park in World War II is legendary. Ultra, along with broader Allied signal...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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 vulnera...