RISK & CYBERSECURITY

For many years I’ve observed the same pattern of failure in projects, programs, issue mitigation and indeed anything that requires more...

Many security leaders, at all levels, correctly focus on having a good strategy and executing against that. However, many teams confuse...

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...

Jim Collins  wrote a great little book called Turning the Flywheel  to further develop an idea introduced in his book Good to Great to...

Quantum computing is advancing rapidly. Innovations from Google, Microsoft, IBM and others are pushing the boundaries of not just the...

Operational resilience is a concept that has gained even further traction. It first came to prominence from financial regulators, in...

There are organizations that seem to have disproportionately created a large number of leaders who have gone on to be CISOs or other...

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. ...

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...

Every few months some association or other learned group of professionals makes a fresh call to action for cybersecurity regulatory...

If you work for a large organization, especially public or otherwise regulated companies, then you may well have faced the prospect of...

It’s puzzling that there aren’t more articles comparing and contrasting wildlife hunting techniques with cyber threat hunting, or maybe...

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...

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...

I wrote the original version of this post over 4 years ago. In revisiting this it is interesting to note that not much has actually...

If we are to keep advancing the fields of information / cybersecurity, technology risk management and resilience then we need to apply...

Security training is often considered a bit of a waste of time. Maybe this is unfair, but unsurprising in the face of the worst forms of...

One of the many paradoxes of security is that when you have invested appropriately (sometimes at significant expense) and you have less...

Several years after writing the first version of this blog I still see a repeated pattern of problematic events attributed to human...

When you strip away all the fluff, security succeeds when: You are moving quicker than attackers - mitigating specific attacks ahead of,...