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    • Jun 19, 2021
    • 7 min

    The Actual Cybersecurity Workforce Challenge

    We continuously hear about the millions of unfilled cybersecurity roles, although I’ve yet to see a study that actually supports that...
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    • Jun 5, 2021
    • 6 min

    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...
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    • May 22, 2021
    • 2 min

    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...
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    • May 13, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
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    • May 8, 2021
    • 7 min

    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...
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    • Apr 24, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
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    • Apr 10, 2021
    • 6 min

    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...
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    • Mar 27, 2021
    • 5 min

    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...
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    • Mar 13, 2021
    • 4 min

    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,...
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    • Feb 27, 2021
    • 3 min

    "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...
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    • Feb 13, 2021
    • 4 min

    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:...
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    • Jan 30, 2021
    • 5 min

    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....
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