A New Way to Think : Review
I typically don’t do book reviews, but this book was impressive and it resonated with many information security and risk management...
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- Oct 22
- 10 min
Grand Challenges or Grind Challenges
How much of your work that you would like to describe as a “grand” challenge is really more of a “grind”? As an industry we like to talk...
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- Sep 10
- 13 min
Crucial Questions from Governments and Regulators
In this, fourth and final post in the series of Crucial Questions I’m going to focus on those from governments and regulators. This...
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- Aug 27
- 23 min
Crucial Questions from CISOs and Security Teams
In this, third in a series of Crucial Questions posts I’m going to focus on the questions from CISOs and security teams. This builds on...
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- Jul 31
- 11 min
Crucial Questions from CEOs and Boards
Over the past few years I have done a lot of speaking at conferences, events and small group settings for Board directors and corporate...
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- Jul 16
- 3 min
3 Year Review
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...
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- Jul 2
- 5 min
The Reporting Line of Security Teams / CISOs - Updated
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...
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- Jun 18
- 6 min
Are Security Analogies Counterproductive?
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...
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- May 21
- 7 min
Defense in Depth
Defense in depth is a well accepted security principle. Intuitively, it stipulates there should be multiple lines of controls so as to...
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- May 8
- 9 min
Regulatory Relationships
For some reason there have been a few people already in or moving into highly regulated industries, like finance or healthcare, that have...
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- Apr 9
- 9 min
10 Fundamental (but really hard) Security Metrics
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...
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- Mar 26
- 7 min
Resilience is about Capabilities not Plans - Updated
Over the past 2 years, since I wrote the first version of this post, we’ve had a lot of opportunity to test our collective resilience....
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- Mar 12
- 9 min
Human Error
Human error is not an explanation, rather it is something to be explained. In analyzing and learning from incidents, not just security...
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- Feb 26
- 4 min
Controls - Updated
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...
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- Jan 1
- 7 min
The Obvious CISO : Don’t Overlook the Simple
There is a great little book I read recently, “Obvious Adams - The Story of a Successful Businessman", it’s available on Amazon, but it’s...
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- Dec 18, 2021
- 3 min
Risk Megatrends - Updated
Megatrends are long-term, large-scale forces that shape the world around us. They are the driving forces that have tactical consequences...
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- Dec 4, 2021
- 8 min
How is the Security Profession Doing?
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...
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- Nov 20, 2021
- 4 min
Security Program Tactics - Updated
When starting or reinvigorating a security program, focus on a small number of meta-objectives that can have sustained outsize effects in...
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- Nov 6, 2021
- 6 min
Slipstreaming : Business Tactics for Security & Control Implementation
One of the most frequent cybersecurity binary thinking curses is that just because senior leadership in organizations won’t do every...
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- Oct 9, 2021
- 3 min
The Leading Indicators of a Great Info/Cybersecurity Program - Updated
As we see more incidents occurring, whether ransomware, data breaches or fraud, many thoughts turn to how to know whether those we do...
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