RISK & CYBERSECURITY

In any sizable organization it is important to have some form of management steering group or committee to oversee your risk program. The...

Of the vast canon of insightful commentary that has come from Dan Geer over many years, one that especially stuck with me was his...

How to represent cybersecurity (or technology / information risks more generally) to the Board is an ongoing subject of discussion in...

It is sad that many security discussions are so binary: that is, if you’re not wildly for something then you must be wildly against it....

This is an update from a thread that became a post last year. Threat intelligence seems, at least to me, to get maligned too much. For...

The underlying secret of most great security leaders and teams is one thing: the ability to know what needs to be done really well vs....

I’ve been using variants of these principles for many years in many contexts, both for security and broader risk management teams. I have...

Disagreement arises in many situations. It is an inevitable part of any work in any organization, or life in general. It is especially...

I see regular waves of articles and commentary that assert : “We are spending more and more on security but security incidents / breaches...

Resilience can be thought of as the ability to absorb shocks, adjust as needed and continue operation in the face of adversity. In other...

Let’s assume general purpose quantum computers that can operate usefully at scale are coming. I think a reasonable timeframe is 15 years....

Chesterton's Fence is a cautionary tale to make sure that before you change things you actually understand their purpose. This is...