RISK & CYBERSECURITY

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...

Over the past few years I have done a lot of speaking at conferences, events and small group settings for Board directors and corporate...

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...

For some reason there have been a few people already in or moving into highly regulated industries, like finance or healthcare, that have...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Megatrends are long-term, large-scale forces that shape the world around us. They are the driving forces that have tactical consequences...

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...

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

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...

There are four major insights that, above all others, have influenced my approach to security and risk management over the past decades....