RISK & CYBERSECURITY

The most read posts in 2025 coalesced around the concept that successful cybersecurity is fundamentally a function of business leadership, strategic design, and sustainable execution . The unifying themes across the top posts emphasize shifting security from an artisanal, reactive craft to an industrial-scale, proactive capability focused on building scalable, self-reinforcing systems (flywheels). Transformation requires leaders to manage stakeholder expectations carefully, p

This is an update to a post from 2001 which I’m revisiting in part because some things have changed, but also because (surprisingly) much...

There is a plethora of sample job descriptions for security leaders that are often strictly correct but can also be uninspiring or too...

I have a regular set of go to books both for myself and what I recommend to others at all stages in their career. Here they all are with...