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Jun 4, 20228 min read
Career Advice and Professional Development
I often get asked for advice about careers and professional development. Unfortunately I don't have the time to do this in person, except...
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May 21, 20227 min read
Defense in Depth
Defense in depth is a well accepted security principle. Intuitively, it stipulates there should be multiple lines of controls so as to...
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May 8, 20229 min read
Regulatory Relationships
For some reason there have been a few people already in or moving into highly regulated industries, like finance or healthcare, that have...
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Apr 21, 20223 min read
The Stress and Joy of Security Jobs - Updated
There’s a lot going on in the world from conflict, crime, economic and many other pressures. Many of these matters have security...
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Apr 9, 20229 min read
10 Fundamental (but really hard) Security Metrics
As an industry we have been trying to deal with the issue of security metrics for a long time. I’ve written about this here, and in the...
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Mar 26, 20227 min read
Resilience is about Capabilities not Plans - Updated
Over the past 2 years, since I wrote the first version of this post, we’ve had a lot of opportunity to test our collective resilience....
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Mar 12, 20229 min read
Human Error
Human error is not an explanation, rather it is something to be explained. In analyzing and learning from incidents, not just security...
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Feb 26, 20224 min read
Controls - Updated
I wrote the first version of this post nearly 3 years ago. It is interesting that since then much of it remains true. Oddly, it also...
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Feb 12, 202218 min read
Organizational Politics
At every stage in your career and in every part of your role you are going to have to deal with organizational politics. By this, I don’t...
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Jan 29, 202216 min read
Secrets of Successful Security Programs - Part 2
As introduced in the last post, a successful security program is made up of two distinct elements: A series of episodic big bets that...
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Jan 15, 202211 min read
Secrets of Successful Security Programs - Part 1
A successful security program (although I imagine this advice could apply to any discipline) is made up of two distinct elements: A...
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Jan 1, 20227 min read
The Obvious CISO : Don’t Overlook the Simple
There is a great little book I read recently, “Obvious Adams - The Story of a Successful Businessman", it’s available on Amazon, but it’s...
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