RISK & CYBERSECURITY

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....

We talk about attackers being the enemy. Sometimes we talk about insider threats. But one of our biggest enemies is pernicious...

How Boards, especially public company Boards, oversee cybersecurity is a crucial but difficult topic. This previous post discussed how...

A key part of any security leader's role is relationship management. In my experience this is another one of those leadership skills that...

One of the many pieces of accepted wisdom in information/cybersecurity is that complexity is the enemy of security. But is it? You...