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Relationship Management for the InfoSec Program
A key part of any security leader's role is relationship management. In my experience this is another one of those leadership skills that...
Jun 5, 20216 min read
Segmentation Technologies / Zero Trust
I first came across the notion of doctrine vs. structure in this depiction about the relative positioning of tanks from some blog or...
May 22, 20212 min read
Cloud Security
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...
May 13, 20211 min read
Is Complexity the Enemy of Security?
One of the many pieces of accepted wisdom in information/cybersecurity is that complexity is the enemy of security. But is it? You...
May 8, 20217 min read
Leadership, Business, Security and Risk Reading List
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...
Apr 24, 20211 min read
Security Leaders Guide to Managing Stress
Security is a tough job. But it is not uniquely so. Our colleagues in risk, safety, compliance, privacy, and many other disciplines have...
Apr 10, 20216 min read
Cybersecurity : The Winner’s Game and The Loser’s Game
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...
Mar 27, 20215 min read
Return on Investment for Security
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,...
Mar 13, 20214 min read
"Hell Yes, or No" vs. "Soft Yes, and Fast Quit"
I am a big fan of the concept of saying, “Hell Yes, or No” to decide whether to do something or not. Derek Sivers has written well about...
Feb 27, 20213 min read
Research Challenges in Info/Cybersecurity - Part 2: “Carbon”
This is the second part of the post from 2 weeks ago, which explored research challenges in Info/Cybersecurity related to systems:...
Feb 13, 20214 min read
Research Challenges in Info/Cybersecurity - Part 1: “Silicon"
This is the first of a two part post on research challenges centered on systems, computer science and engineering research challenges....
Jan 30, 20215 min read
Situational Drivers of Cyber-Risk
Many years ago I wrote down a list of the drivers that create information / cyber-risk or that otherwise compel the need to mitigate this...
Jan 17, 20213 min read
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