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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- Feb 2, 2020
- 5 min
Dealing with the Deluge of Vendors
Everyone is deluged with approaches from product and service vendors, small and large. Even vendors struggle to keep track of who their...
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- Jan 23, 2020
- 2 min
The Leading Indicators of a Great Info/Cybersecurity Program
It can be hard to effectively assess, with a suitable degree of rigor, the security of your suppliers, counter-parties or companies you...
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- Jan 1, 2020
- 3 min
Predictions and Calls to Action
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...
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- Dec 1, 2019
- 3 min
Insider Threat Risk - Blast Radius Perspective
The management of insider threats is a complex and often under-thought process - people who work on it appreciate the subtlety and...
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- Nov 24, 2019
- 2 min
Alternative Risk Management Strategies.
Much focus of risk mitigation is about implementing controls: preventative, detective and reactive. This is necessary in most cases, and...
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- Nov 10, 2019
- 1 min
Shrines of Failure
I was at an event recently where one participant talked passionately about a disaster they had that they have since preserved artifacts...
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- Oct 26, 2019
- 1 min
Career Longevity & "The Don't Fire Me Chart"
To fix anything sustainably requires long term action. This is especially true in technology risk and cybersecurity. The trouble is this...
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- Oct 5, 2019
- 2 min
The Stress and Joy of Security Jobs
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...
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- Sep 29, 2019
- 3 min
Cybersecurity is not the only Technology Risk
Cybersecurity is not the only technology risk, in fact, when you total up actual losses it is likely not even the biggest risk. Although...
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- Sep 15, 2019
- 3 min
Security Program Tactics
When starting or reinvigorating a security program, focus on a small number of meta-objectives that can have sustained outsize effects -...
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- Sep 1, 2019
- 2 min
Vulnerability Management
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...
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- Aug 17, 2019
- 2 min
Cybersecurity as a First Class Business Risk
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...
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- Jul 21, 2019
- 2 min
Fundamental Drivers of Information Security Risk
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...
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