Secrets of Successful Security Programs - Part 2
As introduced in the last post, a successful security program is made up of two distinct elements: A series of episodic big bets that...
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- Jan 15, 2022
- 11 min
Secrets of Successful Security Programs - Part 1
A successful security program (although I imagine this advice could apply to any discipline) is made up of two distinct elements: A...
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- Dec 4, 2021
- 8 min
How is the Security Profession Doing?
I spoke on a CIISEC panel a few months ago about the state of the information security profession. This post is based on remarks I made...
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- Nov 20, 2021
- 4 min
Security Program Tactics - Updated
When starting or reinvigorating a security program, focus on a small number of meta-objectives that can have sustained outsize effects in...
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- Nov 6, 2021
- 6 min
Slipstreaming : Business Tactics for Security & Control Implementation
One of the most frequent cybersecurity binary thinking curses is that just because senior leadership in organizations won’t do every...
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- Oct 22, 2021
- 4 min
Conferences and the Wider Security Eco System Culture - Toxic or Not?
This could be part of another whole series on the curse of binary thinking so please read this in that tone. In other words, I’m trying...
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- Oct 9, 2021
- 3 min
The Leading Indicators of a Great Info/Cybersecurity Program - Updated
As we see more incidents occurring, whether ransomware, data breaches or fraud, many thoughts turn to how to know whether those we do...
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- Sep 25, 2021
- 4 min
Cyber Deterrence : A Simple Perspective
Cyber deterrence is a topic that comes in and out of vogue. It is widely studied but often misunderstood. It also suffers tremendously...
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- Sep 12, 2021
- 8 min
If Accounting were like Cybersecurity
It has always struck me how well the field of finance and more specifically accounting has done to standardize on its terms. This...
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- Aug 27, 2021
- 3 min
Risk Management is not only about Reducing Risk - Updated
This is an update from a post of a couple of years ago prompted by some recent observations from a few different organizations. It seems...
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- Jul 30, 2021
- 7 min
CISO: Archeologist, Historian or Explorer?
We talk about attackers being the enemy. Sometimes we talk about insider threats. But one of our biggest enemies is pernicious...
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- Jul 3, 2021
- 6 min
Cybersecurity and the Curse of Binary Thinking
Working in information/cybersecurity and technology risk is a fascinating and challenging career, as I’ve covered here. There is, mostly,...
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- Jun 19, 2021
- 7 min
The Actual Cybersecurity Workforce Challenge
We continuously hear about the millions of unfilled cybersecurity roles, although I’ve yet to see a study that actually supports that...
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- May 22, 2021
- 2 min
Segmentation Technologies / Zero Trust
I first came across the notion of doctrine vs. structure in this depiction about the relative positioning of tanks from some blog or...
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- May 13, 2021
- 1 min
Cloud Security
In a few of my posts I've talked about the economy of scale of the cloud is fundamentally changing the game of security. The pace of...
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- May 8, 2021
- 7 min
Is Complexity the Enemy of Security?
One of the many pieces of accepted wisdom in information/cybersecurity is that complexity is the enemy of security. But is it? You...
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- Apr 24, 2021
- 1 min
Leadership, Business, Security and Risk Reading List
This is my list of favorite books across the various professional disciplines I’m interested in. I have a set of favorite books that are...
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- Mar 27, 2021
- 5 min
Cybersecurity : The Winner’s Game and The Loser’s Game
There is a seminal paper in finance by Charles Ellis called the The Loser’s Game which, in simple terms, foretells the move from active...
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- Mar 13, 2021
- 4 min
Return on Investment for Security
The concept of return on investment (ROI) for security has bugged me for a long time. Not because it isn’t a laudable goal. Of course,...
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- Feb 13, 2021
- 4 min
Research Challenges in Info/Cybersecurity - Part 2: “Carbon”
This is the second part of the post from 2 weeks ago, which explored research challenges in Info/Cybersecurity related to systems:...
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