RISK & CYBERSECURITY

Disagreement arises in many situations. It is an inevitable part of any work in any organization, or life in general. It is especially ap...

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

Resilience can be thought of as the ability to absorb shocks, adjust as needed and continue operation in the face of adversity. In other w...

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

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 s...

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...

In most organizations you are constantly upgrading your security controls. This is for many reasons, including: New threats induce higher...

In this coming decade there will be 5 major themes that differentiate great security programs, products, features and processes. These ar...

I've been thinking more about mega trends applied to risk, specifically operational risk (people, process, technology & external events)....

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

The Bank of England has recently released a sequence of consultation papers, after an earlier discussion paper, laying out a framework f...

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...

For some reason, first at a TAG_Cyber event and then coincidentally at 2 other events, the question of what books security people should ...

The management of insider threats is a complex and often under-thought process - people who work on it appreciate the subtlety and diffic...

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 f...

To fix anything sustainably requires long term action. This is especially true in technology risk and cybersecurity. The trouble is this ...

It seems most risk and security programs, and instruction on how to run risk and security programs, focus exclusively on assessing 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 ...

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