RISK & CYBERSECURITY

Human error is not an explanation, rather it is something to be explained. In analyzing and learning from incidents, not just security...

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...

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...

As introduced in the last post, a successful security program is made up of two distinct elements: A series of episodic big bets that...

A successful security program (although I imagine this advice could apply to any discipline) is made up of two distinct elements: A...

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...

Megatrends are long-term, large-scale forces that shape the world around us. They are the driving forces that have tactical consequences...

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...

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

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

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...

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