RISK & CYBERSECURITY

It can be irritating to receive e-mails from vendors during a time of crisis, like now, with the spin that their products can help. It is...

I have run organizations, large and small, local and remote, for many years. I have been the beneficiary (and victim) of many management...

In this coming decade there will be 5 major themes that differentiate great security programs, products, features and processes. These...

I've been thinking more about mega trends applied to risk, specifically operational risk (people, process, technology & external events)....

Everyone is deluged with approaches from product and service vendors, small and large. Even vendors struggle to keep track of who their...

It can be hard to effectively assess, with a suitable degree of rigor, the security of your suppliers, counter-parties or companies you...

The Bank of England has recently released a sequence of consultation papers, after an earlier discussion paper, laying out a framework...

It’s that time of year for all the predictions of what to expect for the next year, and now - the next decade. I’m generally not a fan of...

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

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

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

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