Risk & Cybersecurity

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Nov 24, 2019
2 min

Alternative Risk Management Strategies.

Much focus of risk mitigation is about implementing controls: preventative, detective and reactive. This is necessary in most cases, and ...

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Nov 17, 2019
2 min

Simple Rules of (InfoSec) Career Success

Over the years I made note of what behaviors I’ve seen from successful people. By success, I mean getting results, increase span of influ...

163

Nov 10, 2019
1 min

Shrines of Failure

I was at an event recently where one participant talked passionately about a disaster they had that they have since preserved artifacts f...

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Oct 26, 2019
1 min

Career Longevity & "The Don't Fire Me Chart"

To fix anything sustainably requires long term action. This is especially true in technology risk and cybersecurity. The trouble is this ...

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Oct 20, 2019
2 min

Risk Management is not only about Reducing Risk

It seems most risk and security programs, and instruction on how to run risk and security programs, focus exclusively on assessing risk, ...

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Oct 5, 2019
2 min

The Stress and Joy of Security Jobs

A few months ago there was this whole thing about the stress of security roles, CISOs self-medicating, and a whole range of burn-out talk...

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Sep 29, 2019
3 min

Cybersecurity is not the only Technology Risk

Cybersecurity is not the only technology risk, in fact, when you total up actual losses it is likely not even the biggest risk. Although ...

181

Sep 15, 2019
3 min

Security Program Tactics

When starting or reinvigorating a security program, focus on a small number of meta-objectives that can have sustained outsize effects - ...

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Sep 1, 2019
2 min

Vulnerability Management

I don’t see much written on vulnerability management in more holistic terms vs. patch/bug fixing. This might be ok given a lot of vulnera...

Aug 17, 2019
2 min

Cybersecurity as a First Class Business Risk

I see a lot of commentary on the need to “treat cyber/info-security as a business issue not an IT issue”. The problem is it implies that ...

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Aug 12, 2019
3 min

Controls

Many well-known security incidents appear to have a common pattern. They are not the result of some awesome attacker capability to exploi...

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Jul 21, 2019
2 min

Fundamental Drivers of Information Security Risk

As I get older and (hopefully) wiser it has become ever more apparent that all the issues and risks we face arise from a small number of ...

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RISK & CYBERSECURITY

Thoughts from the Field