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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
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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
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Security and Ten Laws of TechnologyÂ
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
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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
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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
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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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The Power of Community: 5 Steps to Fast-Track Your InfoSec Career
As we start out, or even when entering a new stage of our careers, we realize the need to be connected to a professional community. For...
Feb 24, 202413 min read
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The 80 / 20 PrincipleÂ
Ever since I first became familiar with the 80/20 principle, and other circumstances marked by Pareto distributions, I began to see...
Feb 10, 20245 min read
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Leadership Transitions - 10 Steps for Success
Many of us have been through several leadership transitions in our careers. It could be a new role in the same or different organization....
Jan 27, 20249 min read
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Best Security Movies (and some that haven’t been made yet)
Everyone has their list of favorite security movies and I bet some are on everyone’s list. There’s also a set of movies that aren’t...
Jan 13, 20245 min read
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Top Ideas and Posts from 2023
Thankfully I managed to keep up the pace of 1 post every 2 weeks throughout 2023. Just when I think I might be running out of ideas, and...
Dec 30, 20235 min read
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The Art of Influencing - 7 Steps
A critical measure of success for most security roles is the ability to influence. I’ve often found people think influence skills are...
Dec 16, 20233 min read
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