Caricatures of Security People
The great thing about the security industry is it’s made up of a variety of roles and people from many backgrounds, disciplines, skill...
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Oct 21, 202312 min
Career Development: 13 Formative Moments (Part 2)
The skills for your role and your leadership style build up throughout your career. But I’ve found, personally and in talking to others,...
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Oct 7, 202316 min
Career Development: 13 Formative Moments (Part 1)
The skills for your role and your leadership style build up throughout your career. But I’ve found, personally and in talking to others,...
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Sep 23, 20237 min
Is Complexity the Enemy of Security?
Since the last post about leverage points in managing complex systems I thought it would be good to revisit and update a post from a few...
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Sep 9, 202314 min
Leverage Points - A Cybersecurity Perspective
Security is an emergent property of the complex systems we inhabit. In other words, security isn’t a thing that you do, rather it's a...
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Aug 26, 20236 min
Security Budgets - Supply and Demand
Unless you’re doing continuous or quarterly budgeting, which some organizations do, then you’ll no doubt be getting ready for the long...
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Aug 12, 20234 min
Building Balanced Security Teams - Updated
As an industry we spend a lot of time talking about workforce development and skills shortages. However, we tend not to talk about how to...
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Jul 29, 202314 min
Confessions of a Public Speaker - Tips for Security Practitioners
Many of us have to regularly speak in public at a range of events large and small, public and private, staged and ad-hoc. As your career...
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Jul 15, 202313 min
Resilience Engineering - Step by Step
Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts is an excellent collection of standalone essays, woven into a consistent whole on the...
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Jul 1, 20233 min
AI Consequence and Intent - Second Order Risks
There is a lot of good discussion and emerging methods to manage the risks of AI in various forms from training data protection, model...
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Jun 17, 202319 min
Work / Life Balance
I have always struggled to balance work and life. Many years ago I realized I wasn’t so much struggling to achieve an effective balance,...
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Jun 3, 20238 min
Delivering Security at Scale: From Artisanal to Industrial
Maturing a security program in any type of organization is not just to increase specific control effectiveness but also to increase its...
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