Risk & Cybersecurity

Non-Technical Books. Recommended List

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

The Art of Influencing

A critical measure of success for most security roles is the ability to influence. I’ve often found people think influence skills are...

Insider Threat Risk - Blast Radius Perspective

The management of insider threats is a complex and often under-thought process - people who work on it appreciate the subtlety and...

Alternative Risk Management Strategies.

Much focus of risk mitigation is about implementing controls: preventative, detective and reactive. This is necessary in most cases, and...

Simple Rules of (InfoSec) Career Success

Over the years I made note of what behaviors I’ve seen from successful people. By success, I mean getting results, increase span of...

Shrines of Failure

I was at an event recently where one participant talked passionately about a disaster they had that they have since preserved artifacts...

Career Longevity & "The Don't Fire Me Chart"

To fix anything sustainably requires long term action. This is especially true in technology risk and cybersecurity. The trouble is this...

Risk Management is not only about Reducing Risk

It seems most risk and security programs, and instruction on how to run risk and security programs, focus exclusively on assessing risk,...

The Stress and Joy of Security Jobs

A few months ago there was this whole thing about the stress of security roles, CISOs self-medicating, and a whole range of burn-out...

Cybersecurity is not the only Technology Risk

Cybersecurity is not the only technology risk, in fact, when you total up actual losses it is likely not even the biggest risk. Although...

Security Program Tactics

When starting or reinvigorating a security program, focus on a small number of meta-objectives that can have sustained outsize effects -...

Vulnerability Management

I don’t see much written on vulnerability management in more holistic terms vs. patch/bug fixing. This might be ok given a lot of...