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Building Balanced Security Teams - Updated
As an industry we spend a lot of time talking about workforce development and skills shortages. However, we tend not to talk about how to...
Aug 12, 20234 min read
Confessions of a Public Speaker - Tips for Security Practitioners
Many of us have to regularly speak in public at a range of events large and small, public and private, staged and ad-hoc. As your career...
Jul 29, 202314 min read
Resilience Engineering - Step by Step
Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts is an excellent collection of standalone essays, woven into a consistent whole on the...
Jul 15, 202313 min read
AI Consequence and Intent - Second Order Risks
There is a lot of good discussion and emerging methods to manage the risks of AI in various forms from training data protection, model...
Jul 1, 20233 min read
Work / Life Balance
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,...
Jun 17, 202319 min read
Delivering Security at Scale: From Artisanal to Industrial
Maturing a security program in any type of organization is not just to increase specific control effectiveness but also to increase its...
Jun 3, 20238 min read
You Only Get 3 Metrics - Which Ones Would You Pick?
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...
May 20, 202310 min read
The Illusion of Choice : A Review
In the last post we talked about the challenges and opportunities of using individual and organizational incentives to ensure effective...
May 7, 202313 min read
People and Security Incentives
Force 6 : People, organizations and AI respond to incentives and inherent biases but not always the ones we think are rational. //...
Apr 22, 20238 min read
Handling Complexity
Force 5 : Complex Systems break in Unpredictable Ways // Central Idea: While component level simplicity is vital, seeking to eliminate...
Apr 7, 20238 min read
Fighting Security Entropy
Force 4 : Entropy is King // Central Idea: Adopting a control reliability engineering mindset by continuous control monitoring is...
Mar 25, 20237 min read
Attack Surface Management
Force 3 : Services want to be on // Central Idea: Take architectural steps to inherently reduce your attack surface - don’t just rely...
Mar 12, 20239 min read
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