RISK & CYBERSECURITY

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,...

Maturing a security program in any type of organization is not just to increase specific control effectiveness but also to increase its...

Just over a year ago I put out this blog post on the 10 fundamental (but really hard) security metrics. Since then I’ve discussed this...

In the last post we talked about the challenges and opportunities of using individual and organizational incentives to ensure effective...

Force 6 : People, organizations and AI respond to incentives and inherent biases but not always the ones we think are rational. //...

Force 5 : Complex Systems break in Unpredictable Ways // Central Idea: While component level simplicity is vital, seeking to eliminate...

Force 4 : Entropy is King // Central Idea: Adopting a control reliability engineering mindset by continuous control monitoring is...

Force 3 : Services want to be on // Central Idea: Take architectural steps to inherently reduce your attack surface - don’t just rely...

Force 2 : Code wants to be wrong // Central Idea: Shift from a pure focus on only reducing security vulnerabilities towards increasing...

Force 1: Information wants to be free // Central Idea: Shift from perimeter based surveillance and tactical blocking to data governance...

I first posted this as a Twitter thread in 2019. These forces still seem very much current - perhaps even more so. It is interesting to...

There is a lot of conventional security that is based on established ceremonies and an unquestioning faith that if we keep doing these...