RISK & CYBERSECURITY

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

I see a lot of commentary on the need to “treat cyber/info-security as a business issue not an IT issue”. The problem is it implies that...

As I get older and (hopefully) wiser it has become ever more apparent that all the issues and risks we face arise from a small number of...

Having read many people’s strong-held views on this topic I thought I’d add to the mix. Despite a lot of people now inevitably thinking...