RISK & CYBERSECURITY

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...

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...

There is a seminal paper in finance by Charles Ellis called the The Loser’s Game which, in simple terms, foretells the move from active...

The concept of return on investment (ROI) for security has bugged me for a long time. Not because it isn’t a laudable goal. Of course,...

This is the second part of the post from 2 weeks ago, which explored research challenges in Info/Cybersecurity related to systems:...

Many years ago I wrote down a list of the drivers that create information / cyber-risk or that otherwise compel the need to mitigate this...

At the risk of being too understated, 2020 was an interesting year. In this blog I’ve covered many topics across the range of strategy...

Security ratings services tend to be loved or loathed. Loved if you consume them and it makes your job easier, especially if you have no...

The success of a security program is largely determined by how well it is integrated into the fabric of the organization, in terms of...