RISK & CYBERSECURITY

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...

A key part of any security leader's role is relationship management. In my experience this is another one of those leadership skills that...

I first came across the notion of doctrine vs. structure in this depiction about the relative positioning of tanks from some blog or...

In a few of my posts I've talked about the economy of scale of the cloud is fundamentally changing the game of security. The pace of...

One of the many pieces of accepted wisdom in information/cybersecurity is that complexity is the enemy of security. But is it? You...

This is my list of favorite books across the various professional disciplines I’m interested in. I have a set of favorite books that are...

Security is a tough job. But it is not uniquely so. Our colleagues in risk, safety, compliance, privacy, and many other disciplines have...

There is a seminal paper in finance by Charles Ellis called the The Loser’s Game which, in simple terms, foretells the move from active...

The concept of return on investment (ROI) for security has bugged me for a long time. Not because it isn’t a laudable goal. Of course,...