Research Challenges in Info/Cybersecurity - Part 1: “Silicon"
This is the first of a two part post on research challenges centered on systems, computer science and engineering research challenges....
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- Jan 17, 2021
- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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]...
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- 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...
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- 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,...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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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...
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- 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....
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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,...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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