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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...

683 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....

1,567 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...

723 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...

706 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,...

714 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...

933 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...

779 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...

2,820 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....

1,883 views

Jul 18, 2020
3 min

Threat Intelligence - Updated

This is an update from a thread that became a post last year. Threat intelligence seems, at least to me, to get maligned too much. For...

1,040 views

Jul 12, 2020
3 min

Security Leadership: A-grades vs. Pass/Fail

The underlying secret of most great security leaders and teams is one thing: the ability to know what needs to be done really well vs....

1,797 views

Jun 7, 2020
4 min

Are Security Incidents Really Increasing?

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

820 views

May 17, 2020
3 min

Crypto isn’t the Only Cyber Issue in a Post Quantum World

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

514 views

May 9, 2020
2 min

Think Twice Before Switching Off Controls : Chesterton's Fence

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

390 views

May 3, 2020
5 min

Cyber Risk Quantification

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...

4,122 views

Apr 26, 2020
5 min

Are You Managing Your Risk Register Effectively?

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...

2,198 views

Apr 19, 2020
4 min

Intelligence Failures - “The Distortion of Retrospect”

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

563 views

Apr 5, 2020
3 min

Prioritizing Security Improvements - A Deceptively Simple Way

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

1,904 views

Mar 22, 2020
2 min

Selling into a Crisis (Rights and Wrongs)

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...

8,237 views

Mar 1, 2020
3 min

Cybersecurity Macro Themes for the 2020's

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

1,973 views

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