RISK & CYBERSECURITY

I’ve been doing this blog for around 3 years, largely succeeding in posting every 2 weeks. I have learnt a lot in this process and I...

This can be an emotive topic for many people. It is one, I’ve found, colored more by dogma than nuance (as it seems with many things...

Do analogies actually help us or do they set back our ability to drive change? On the face of it they are a useful explanatory tool, as...

Defense in depth is a well accepted security principle. Intuitively, it stipulates there should be multiple lines of controls so as to...

There’s a lot going on in the world from conflict, crime, economic and many other pressures. Many of these matters have security...

As an industry we have been trying to deal with the issue of security metrics for a long time. I’ve written about this here, and in the...

Human error is not an explanation, rather it is something to be explained. In analyzing and learning from incidents, not just security...

I wrote the first version of this post nearly 3 years ago. It is interesting that since then much of it remains true. Oddly, it also...

As introduced in the last post, a successful security program is made up of two distinct elements: A series of episodic big bets that...

A successful security program (although I imagine this advice could apply to any discipline) is made up of two distinct elements: A...

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...

When starting or reinvigorating a security program, focus on a small number of meta-objectives that can have sustained outsize effects in...

One of the most frequent cybersecurity binary thinking curses is that just because senior leadership in organizations won’t do every...

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...

As we see more incidents occurring, whether ransomware, data breaches or fraud, many thoughts turn to how to know whether those we do...

Cyber deterrence is a topic that comes in and out of vogue. It is widely studied but often misunderstood. It also suffers tremendously...

It has always struck me how well the field of finance and more specifically accounting has done to standardize on its terms. This...

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...

We talk about attackers being the enemy. Sometimes we talk about insider threats. But one of our biggest enemies is pernicious...

Working in information/cybersecurity and technology risk is a fascinating and challenging career, as I’ve covered here. There is, mostly,...