Risk & Cybersecurity

The Leading Indicators of a Great Info/Cybersecurity Program

It can be hard to effectively assess, with a suitable degree of rigor, the security of your suppliers, counter-parties or companies you...

Operational Resilience

The Bank of England has recently released a sequence of consultation papers, after an earlier discussion paper, laying out a framework...

Predictions and Calls to Action

It’s that time of year for all the predictions of what to expect for the next year, and now - the next decade. I’m generally not a fan of...

Non-Technical Books. Recommended List

For some reason, first at a TAG_Cyber event and then coincidentally at 2 other events, the question of what books security people should...

The Art of Influencing

A critical measure of success for most security roles is the ability to influence. I’ve often found people think influence skills are...

Insider Threat Risk - Blast Radius Perspective

The management of insider threats is a complex and often under-thought process - people who work on it appreciate the subtlety and...

Alternative Risk Management Strategies.

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

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...