Cybersecurity Workforce Development - Updated
It is still somewhat frustrating that most of the dialog about the skills shortage in cybersecurity focuses, perhaps inevitably, on the...
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- Aug 16, 2020
- 6 min
Tips for Running a Risk Committee
In any sizable organization it is important to have some form of management steering group or committee to oversee your risk program. The...
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- Aug 8, 2020
- 3 min
Insider Threat - Blast Radius Perspective - Updated
Of the vast canon of insightful commentary that has come from Dan Geer over many years, one that especially stuck with me was his...
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- Aug 1, 2020
- 10 min
Cybersecurity and the Board : A Fresh Perspective?
How to represent cybersecurity (or technology / information risks more generally) to the Board is an ongoing subject of discussion in...
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- Jul 25, 2020
- 4 min
Compliance vs. Security
It is sad that many security discussions are so binary: that is, if you’re not wildly for something then you must be wildly against it....
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- Jul 18, 2020
- 3 min
Threat Intelligence - Updated
This is an update from a thread that became a post last year. Threat intelligence seems, at least to me, to get maligned too much. For...
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- Jul 12, 2020
- 3 min
Security Leadership: A-grades vs. Pass/Fail
The underlying secret of most great security leaders and teams is one thing: the ability to know what needs to be done really well vs....
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- Jun 28, 2020
- 2 min
A Simple Manifesto for Leading Security and Risk Teams
I’ve been using variants of these principles for many years in many contexts, both for security and broader risk management teams. I have...
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- Jun 21, 2020
- 6 min
A Security Professionals Guide to Dealing with Disagreement
Disagreement arises in many situations. It is an inevitable part of any work in any organization, or life in general. It is especially...
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- Jun 7, 2020
- 4 min
Are Security Incidents Really Increasing?
I see regular waves of articles and commentary that assert : “We are spending more and more on security but security incidents / breaches...
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- May 24, 2020
- 6 min
Resilience is about Capabilities not Plans
Resilience can be thought of as the ability to absorb shocks, adjust as needed and continue operation in the face of adversity. In other...
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- May 17, 2020
- 3 min
Crypto isn’t the Only Cyber Issue in a Post Quantum World
Let’s assume general purpose quantum computers that can operate usefully at scale are coming. I think a reasonable timeframe is 15 years....
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