Risk & Cybersecurity

How is the Security Profession Doing?

I spoke on a CIISEC panel a few months ago about the state of the information security profession. This post is based on remarks I made...

Security Program Tactics - Updated

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

Slipstreaming : Business Tactics for Security & Control Implementation

One of the most frequent cybersecurity binary thinking curses is that just because senior leadership in organizations won’t do every...

Conferences and the Wider Security Eco System Culture - Toxic or Not?

This could be part of another whole series on the curse of binary thinking so please read this in that tone. In other words, I’m trying...

The Leading Indicators of a Great Info/Cybersecurity Program - Updated

As we see more incidents occurring, whether ransomware, data breaches or fraud, many thoughts turn to how to know whether those we do...

Cyber Deterrence : A Simple Perspective

Cyber deterrence is a topic that comes in and out of vogue. It is widely studied but often misunderstood. It also suffers tremendously...

If Accounting were like Cybersecurity

It has always struck me how well the field of finance and more specifically accounting has done to standardize on its terms. This...

Risk Management is not only about Reducing Risk - Updated

This is an update from a post of a couple of years ago prompted by some recent observations from a few different organizations. It seems...

Risk = Hazard + Outrage

There are four major insights that, above all others, have influenced my approach to security and risk management over the past decades....

CISO: Archeologist, Historian or Explorer?

We talk about attackers being the enemy. Sometimes we talk about insider threats. But one of our biggest enemies is pernicious...

Cybersecurity - The Board's Perspective

How Boards, especially public company Boards, oversee cybersecurity is a crucial but difficult topic. This previous post discussed how...

Cybersecurity and the Curse of Binary Thinking

Working in information/cybersecurity and technology risk is a fascinating and challenging career, as I’ve covered here. There is, mostly,...