RISK & CYBERSECURITY

In a few of my posts I've talked about the economy of scale of the cloud is fundamentally changing the game of security. The pace of...

One of the many pieces of accepted wisdom in information/cybersecurity is that complexity is the enemy of security. But is it? You...

This is my list of favorite books across the various professional disciplines I’m interested in. I have a set of favorite books that are...

Security is a tough job. But it is not uniquely so. Our colleagues in risk, safety, compliance, privacy, and many other disciplines have...

There is a seminal paper in finance by Charles Ellis called the The Loser’s Game which, in simple terms, foretells the move from active...

The concept of return on investment (ROI) for security has bugged me for a long time. Not because it isn’t a laudable goal. Of course,...

I am a big fan of the concept of saying, “Hell Yes, or No” to decide whether to do something or not. Derek Sivers has written well about...

This is the second part of the post from 2 weeks ago, which explored research challenges in Info/Cybersecurity related to systems:...

This is the first of a two part post on research challenges centered on systems, computer science and engineering research challenges....

Many years ago I wrote down a list of the drivers that create information / cyber-risk or that otherwise compel the need to mitigate this...

At the risk of being too understated, 2020 was an interesting year. In this blog I’ve covered many topics across the range of strategy...

I can’t recall having seen an overview of a systematized privilege management program. There are lots of great articles on specific...