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Sep 27, 20205 min read
The Most Important Mental Models for CISOs - Simple Steps for Outsize Effects
There are lots of problem solving techniques across many fields. These are often represented as mental models or behavioral short-cuts....
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Sep 20, 20203 min read
The Rising Tide and the Case for Security Optimism
Continuing with the theme of raising the baseline by reducing the cost of control we can see the next logical progression is that the...
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Sep 13, 20204 min read
Raise the Baseline by Reducing the Cost of Control
One of the most successful techniques for enterprise security in many organizations is to create a universal baseline of controls that...
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Sep 6, 20203 min read
Taking Inventories to the Next Level - Reconciliation and Triangulation
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,...
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Aug 29, 20205 min read
Security Budgets - Supply and Demand Thinking
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...
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Aug 22, 20203 min read
Cybersecurity Workforce Development - Updated
It is still somewhat frustrating that most of the dialog about the skills shortage in cybersecurity focuses, perhaps inevitably, on the...
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Aug 16, 20206 min read
Tips for Running a Risk Committee
In any sizable organization it is important to have some form of management steering group or committee to oversee your risk program. The...
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Aug 8, 20203 min read
Insider Threat - Blast Radius Perspective - Updated
Of the vast canon of insightful commentary that has come from Dan Geer over many years, one that especially stuck with me was his...
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Aug 1, 202010 min read
Cybersecurity and the Board : A Fresh Perspective?
How to represent cybersecurity (or technology / information risks more generally) to the Board is an ongoing subject of discussion in...
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Jul 25, 20204 min read
Compliance vs. Security
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....
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Jul 18, 20203 min read
Threat Intelligence - Updated
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...
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Jul 12, 20203 min read
Security Leadership: A-grades vs. Pass/Fail
The underlying secret of most great security leaders and teams is one thing: the ability to know what needs to be done really well vs....
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