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Security Leaders’ Reading List
I have a regular set of go to books both for myself and what I recommend to others at all stages in their career. Here they all are with...
7 days ago6 min read
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Turning the Security Flywheel
Jim Collins  wrote a great little book called Turning the Flywheel  to further develop an idea introduced in his book Good to Great to...
Mar 89 min read
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Post Quantum Cryptography Migration: Time to Get Going
Quantum computing is advancing rapidly. Innovations from Google, Microsoft, IBM and others are pushing the boundaries of not just the...
Feb 228 min read
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Stressed Testing: Practical Operational Resilience
Operational resilience is a concept that has gained even further traction. It first came to prominence from financial regulators, in...
Feb 813 min read
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The CISO Factories: 12 Features of Organizations that Create Security LeadersÂ
There are organizations that seem to have disproportionately created a large number of leaders who have gone on to be CISOs or other...
Jan 256 min read
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Keys to Career Success
I’ve given variants of this talk at a few events in 2024 and received a lot of requests for the slides and a blog post. So here we go. ...
Jan 115 min read
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Top Ideas and Posts from 2024
I managed to keep up the pace of 1 post every 2 weeks throughout 2024. Just when I think I might be running out of ideas, and the backlog...
Dec 28, 20246 min read
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Leadership: One Day at a Time, One Step at a Time
One of the most profound, yet simple, acts of leadership I personally experienced was in the days after 9/11/2001. After the terrorist...
Dec 14, 20242 min read
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Regulatory Harmonization - Let’s Get RealÂ
Every few months some association or other learned group of professionals makes a fresh call to action for cybersecurity regulatory...
Nov 30, 20247 min read
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Lessons in Crisis Management - Top 10 Disaster MoviesÂ
I’ve previously posted about some of the best security movies made  but I have to confess I’m not a big fan of the genre. They tend not...
Nov 16, 20243 min read
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Risk Appetite and Risk Tolerance - A Practical Approach
If you work for a large organization, especially public or otherwise regulated companies, then you may well have faced the prospect of...
Nov 2, 202413 min read
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Threat Hunting: Real World vs. Cyber World
It’s puzzling that there aren’t more articles comparing and contrasting wildlife hunting techniques with cyber threat hunting, or maybe...
Oct 19, 20247 min read
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