RISK & CYBERSECURITY

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...

This could be part of another whole series on the curse of binary thinking so please read this in that tone. In other words, I’m trying...

As we see more incidents occurring, whether ransomware, data breaches or fraud, many thoughts turn to how to know whether those we do...

Cyber deterrence is a topic that comes in and out of vogue. It is widely studied but often misunderstood. It also suffers tremendously...

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...

Working in information/cybersecurity and technology risk is a fascinating and challenging career, as I’ve covered here. There is, mostly,...

We continuously hear about the millions of unfilled cybersecurity roles, although I’ve yet to see a study that actually supports that...