RISK & CYBERSECURITY

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...

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...