RISK & CYBERSECURITY

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...

Scenario planning is one of the most underutilized techniques in security. Which is surprising given how effective it is in [good]...

Escalating issues is part of the foundation of any good risk and security program. Unfortunately, human nature is such that most people...

“For every metric, there should be another ‘paired’ metric that addresses adverse consequences of the first metric.” - Andy Grove We talk...

The uncanny value is a famous term in robotics.  It is used to describe how we accept robots that don’t attempt to look too human, but,...

I have built up a disdain for cybersecurity budgeting benchmarks. To be fair, there are some good attempts amid a sea of haphazard...

As an industry we spend a lot of time talking about workforce development and skills shortages. We tend not to talk about how to organize...

Truly excellent security programs deliver more than security risk mitigation. I know it is kind of ridiculous to say that when doing the...