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Security Training & Awareness - 10 Essential Techniques
Security training is often considered a bit of a waste of time. Maybe this is unfair, but unsurprising in the face of the worst forms of...
Aug 10, 202416 min read
33 Computer Programs That Changed the World
This is a slight departure from my normal security and risk management topics, but is something I’ve been getting more interested in....
Jul 27, 20247 min read
Why Good Security Fails: The Asymmetry of InfoSec Investment
One of the many paradoxes of security is that when you have invested appropriately (sometimes at significant expense) and you have less...
Jul 13, 20245 min read
Human Error
Several years after writing the first version of this blog I still see a repeated pattern of problematic events attributed to human...
Jun 29, 202410 min read
Going Faster: Isochrones and “Time to Hello World”
When you strip away all the fluff, security succeeds when: You are moving quicker than attackers - mitigating specific attacks ahead of,...
Jun 15, 20245 min read
Incentives for Security: Flipping the Script
We’re getting it wrong on the messaging for incentives to do security - and people are pretending it’s landing when it isn’t. There are 5...
Jun 1, 20248 min read
The Crucial Test of Security Leadership: A-grades vs. Pass/Fail
A major success marker of great security leaders and their teams is one simple prioritization technique: the ability to know what needs...
May 18, 20244 min read
Where the Wild Things Are: Second Order Risks of AI
Every major technological change is heralded with claims of significant, even apocalyptic, risks. These almost never turn out to be...
May 4, 202410 min read
Security and Ten Laws of Technology
There are many well known, so called, laws of technology. Moore’s law being particularly emblematic. Let’s look at some of them and see...
Apr 20, 202410 min read
A Letter from the Future
A few weeks ago The White House published our PCAST report on cyber-physical resilience. Thank you for all the positive reactions to...
Apr 6, 20246 min read
InfoSec Hard Problems
We still have plenty of open problems in information and cybersecurity (InfoSec). Many of these problems are what could easily be classed...
Mar 23, 202410 min read
DevOps and Security
Each year, DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) within Google Cloud publishes the excellent State of DevOps report. The 2023 report...
Mar 9, 20246 min read
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