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5 days ago
3 min

Situational Drivers of Cyber-Risk

Many years ago I wrote down a list of the drivers that create information / cyber-risk or that otherwise compel the need to mitigate this...

1,130 views

Dec 19, 2020
5 min

Privilege Management Program - Governance

I can’t recall having seen an overview of a systematized privilege management program. There are lots of great articles on specific autho...

1,164 views

Dec 13, 2020
8 min

Security Ratings: Love, Loathe or Live With Them?

Security ratings services tend to be loved or loathed. Loved if you consume them and it makes your job easier, especially if you have no ...

2,138 views

Dec 6, 2020
6 min

The Seat at the Table: Integrating Security into your Business

The success of a security program is largely determined by how well it is integrated into the fabric of the organization, in terms of bre...

1,337 views

Nov 29, 2020
3 min

Simple Rules of (InfoSec) Career Success - Updated

Over the years I've noted the behaviors I’ve seen from consistently successful people. In this context I define success as a balance of g...

870 views

Nov 22, 2020
5 min

Scenario Planning - The Best Technique You Might Not Be Using

Scenario planning is one of the most underutilized techniques in security. Which is surprising given how effective it is in [good] corpor...

1,214 views

Nov 8, 2020
4 min

Principles for Cybersecurity Metrics

“For every metric, there should be another ‘paired’ metric that addresses adverse consequences of the first metric.” - Andy Grove We talk...

1,411 views

Nov 1, 2020
7 min

The Uncanny Valley of Security (or Why We Might Never Finish Anything)

The uncanny value is a famous term in robotics. It is used to describe how we accept robots that don’t attempt to look too human, but, a...

1,498 views

Oct 25, 2020
4 min

Cybersecurity Macro Themes for the 2020’s - Updated

There will be 6 major themes that differentiate great security programs, products, features and processes. These are different from overa...

1,396 views

Oct 18, 2020
3 min

Why Cybersecurity Budget Benchmarks are a Waste of Time

I have built up a disdain for cybersecurity budgeting benchmarks. To be fair, there are some good attempts amid a sea of haphazard approa...

1,474 views

Oct 13, 2020
2 min

Vulnerability Management - Updated

It still surprises me that much of the tone of vulnerability management is about patch/bug fix vs. detecting broader configuration and ar...

1,291 views

Oct 4, 2020
4 min

Security for More than Security’s Sake - The Need for Adjacent Benefits

Truly excellent security programs deliver more than security risk mitigation. I know it is kind of ridiculous to say that when doing the ...

630 views

Sep 27, 2020
5 min

The Most Important Mental Models for CISOs - Simple Steps for Outsize Effects

There are lots of problem solving techniques across many fields. These are often represented as mental models or behavioral short-cuts. H...

1,426 views

Sep 20, 2020
3 min

The Rising Tide and the Case for Security Optimism

Continuing with the theme of raising the baseline by reducing the cost of control we can see the next logical progression is that the fas...

706 views

Sep 13, 2020
4 min

Raise the Baseline by Reducing the Cost of Control

One of the most successful techniques for enterprise security in many organizations is to create a universal baseline of controls that ap...

576 views

Sep 6, 2020
3 min

Taking Inventories to the Next Level - Reconciliation and Triangulation

We know it is important to have good inventories across all of the assets we care about in an enterprise. For security purposes this is, ...

665 views

Aug 22, 2020
3 min

Cybersecurity Workforce Development - Updated

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

910 views

Aug 8, 2020
3 min

Insider Threat - Blast Radius Perspective - Updated

Of the vast canon of insightful commentary that has come from Dan Geer over many years, one that especially stuck with me was his descrip...

745 views

Aug 1, 2020
10 min

Cybersecurity and the Board : A Fresh Perspective?

How to represent cybersecurity (or technology / information risks more generally) to the Board is an ongoing subject of discussion in mos...

2,528 views

Jul 25, 2020
4 min

Compliance vs. Security

It is sad that many security discussions are so binary: that is, if you’re not wildly for something then you must be wildly against it. O...

1,700 views

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RISK & CYBERSECURITY

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