RISK & CYBERSECURITY

Truly excellent security programs deliver more than security risk mitigation. I know it is kind of ridiculous to say that when doing the...

There are lots of problem solving techniques across many fields. These are often represented as mental models or behavioral short-cuts....

Continuing with the theme of raising the baseline by reducing the cost of control we can see the next logical progression is that the...

One of the most successful techniques for enterprise security in many organizations is to create a universal baseline of controls that...

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,...

It is still somewhat frustrating that most of the dialog about the skills shortage in cybersecurity focuses, perhaps inevitably, on the...

Of the vast canon of insightful commentary that has come from Dan Geer over many years, one that especially stuck with me was his...

How to represent cybersecurity (or technology / information risks more generally) to the Board is an ongoing subject of discussion in...

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....

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...

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....

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

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

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

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...