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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...
Nov 10, 20191 min read
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...
Oct 26, 20191 min read
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,...
Oct 20, 20192 min read
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...
Oct 5, 20192 min read
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...
Sep 29, 20193 min read
Security Program Tactics
When starting or reinvigorating a security program, focus on a small number of meta-objectives that can have sustained outsize effects -...
Sep 15, 20193 min read
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...
Sep 1, 20192 min read
Cybersecurity as a First Class Business Risk
I see a lot of commentary on the need to “treat cyber/info-security as a business issue not an IT issue”. The problem is it implies that...
Aug 17, 20192 min read
Controls
Many well-known security incidents appear to have a common pattern. They are not the result of some awesome attacker capability to...
Aug 12, 20193 min read
Fundamental Drivers of Information Security Risk
As I get older and (hopefully) wiser it has become ever more apparent that all the issues and risks we face arise from a small number of...
Jul 21, 20192 min read
Threat Intelligence
Threat intelligence seems, at least to me, to get maligned too much. For many years I’ve found it an immensely useful element of an...
Jul 18, 20192 min read
The Reporting Line of Security Teams / CISOs
Having read many people’s strong-held views on this topic I thought I’d add to the mix. Despite a lot of people now inevitably thinking...
Jun 9, 20193 min read
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