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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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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- Sep 12, 2021
- 8 min
If Accounting were like Cybersecurity
It has always struck me how well the field of finance and more specifically accounting has done to standardize on its terms. This...
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- Aug 27, 2021
- 3 min
Risk Management is not only about Reducing Risk - Updated
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...
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- Aug 14, 2021
- 9 min
Risk = Hazard + Outrage
There are four major insights that, above all others, have influenced my approach to security and risk management over the past decades....
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- Jul 30, 2021
- 7 min
CISO: Archeologist, Historian or Explorer?
We talk about attackers being the enemy. Sometimes we talk about insider threats. But one of our biggest enemies is pernicious...
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- Jul 16, 2021
- 8 min
Cybersecurity - The Board's Perspective
How Boards, especially public company Boards, oversee cybersecurity is a crucial but difficult topic. This previous post discussed how...
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- Jun 5, 2021
- 6 min
Relationship Management for the InfoSec Program
A key part of any security leader's role is relationship management. In my experience this is another one of those leadership skills that...
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- May 8, 2021
- 7 min
Is Complexity the Enemy of Security?
One of the many pieces of accepted wisdom in information/cybersecurity is that complexity is the enemy of security. But is it? You...
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- Apr 24, 2021
- 1 min
Leadership, Business, Security and Risk Reading List
This is my list of favorite books across the various professional disciplines I’m interested in. I have a set of favorite books that are...
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