RISK & CYBERSECURITY

There are lots of problem solving techniques across many fields. These are often represented as mental models or behavioral short-cuts....

One of the most successful techniques for enterprise security in many organizations is to create a universal baseline of controls that...

We know it is important to have good inventories across all of the assets we care about in an enterprise. For security purposes this is,...

How you obtain and manage a budget to drive an adequate level of security is immensely important. Yet, it is one of the least discussed...

In any sizable organization it is important to have some form of management steering group or committee to oversee your risk program. The...

It is sad that many security discussions are so binary: that is, if you’re not wildly for something then you must be wildly against it....

This is an update from a thread that became a post last year. Threat intelligence seems, at least to me, to get maligned too much. For...

Disagreement arises in many situations. It is an inevitable part of any work in any organization, or life in general. It is especially...

I see regular waves of articles and commentary that assert : “We are spending more and more on security but security incidents / breaches...

Resilience can be thought of as the ability to absorb shocks, adjust as needed and continue operation in the face of adversity. In other...

Chesterton's Fence is a cautionary tale to make sure that before you change things you actually understand their purpose. This is...

Risk quantification, in any field, is not an end in itself. It exists to compel some action. That action might be to drive decisions or...

Not all risks are possible to fully mitigate in every context, so you need to record and manage those residual risks. These are often put...

In most organizations you are constantly upgrading your security controls. This is for many reasons, including: New threats induce higher...

In this coming decade there will be 5 major themes that differentiate great security programs, products, features and processes. These...

I've been thinking more about mega trends applied to risk, specifically operational risk (people, process, technology & external events)....

It can be hard to effectively assess, with a suitable degree of rigor, the security of your suppliers, counter-parties or companies you...

The Bank of England has recently released a sequence of consultation papers, after an earlier discussion paper, laying out a framework...

It’s that time of year for all the predictions of what to expect for the next year, and now - the next decade. I’m generally not a fan of...

For some reason, first at a TAG_Cyber event and then coincidentally at 2 other events, the question of what books security people should...