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...
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Oct 197 min read
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...
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Oct 517 min read
Job Interviews: Part 2 Conducting the Security Interview - The Big 10
This is the second of two posts about interviews (the first post is here ). In this one I’ll focus on interviewing candidates and the...
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Sep 2111 min read
Job Interviews: Part 1 Acing the Security Interview - 10 Top Tips
This is the first of two posts about interviews. In this one I’ll focus on interviewing for a role. In the next one we’ll look at how to...
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Sep 78 min read
6 Truths of Cyber Risk Quantification
I wrote the original version of this post over 4 years ago. In revisiting this it is interesting to note that not much has actually...
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Aug 246 min read
Ethics and Computer Security Research
If we are to keep advancing the fields of information / cybersecurity, technology risk management and resilience then we need to apply...
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Aug 1016 min read
Security Training & Awareness - 10 Essential Techniques
Security training is often considered a bit of a waste of time. Maybe this is unfair, but unsurprising in the face of the worst forms of...
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Jul 135 min read
Why Good Security Fails: The Asymmetry of InfoSec Investment
One of the many paradoxes of security is that when you have invested appropriately (sometimes at significant expense) and you have less...
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Jun 2910 min read
Human Error
Several years after writing the first version of this blog I still see a repeated pattern of problematic events attributed to human...
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Jun 155 min read
Going Faster: Isochrones and “Time to Hello World”
When you strip away all the fluff, security succeeds when: You are moving quicker than attackers - mitigating specific attacks ahead of,...
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Jun 18 min read
Incentives for Security: Flipping the Script
We’re getting it wrong on the messaging for incentives to do security - and people are pretending it’s landing when it isn’t. There are 5...
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May 184 min read
The Crucial Test of Security Leadership: A-grades vs. Pass/Fail
A major success marker of great security leaders and their teams is one simple prioritization technique: the ability to know what needs...
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Apr 2010 min read
Security and Ten Laws of Technology
There are many well known, so called, laws of technology. Moore’s law being particularly emblematic. Let’s look at some of them and see...
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Apr 66 min read
A Letter from the Future
A few weeks ago The White House published our PCAST report on cyber-physical resilience. Thank you for all the positive reactions to...
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Mar 2310 min read
InfoSec Hard Problems
We still have plenty of open problems in information and cybersecurity (InfoSec). Many of these problems are what could easily be classed...
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Mar 96 min read
DevOps and Security
Each year, DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) within Google Cloud publishes the excellent State of DevOps report. The 2023 report...
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Feb 2413 min read
The Power of Community: 5 Steps to Fast-Track Your InfoSec Career
As we start out, or even when entering a new stage of our careers, we realize the need to be connected to a professional community. For...
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Feb 105 min read
The 80 / 20 Principle
Ever since I first became familiar with the 80/20 principle, and other circumstances marked by Pareto distributions, I began to see...
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Jan 135 min read
Best Security Movies (and some that haven’t been made yet)
Everyone has their list of favorite security movies and I bet some are on everyone’s list. There’s also a set of movies that aren’t...
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Dec 30, 20235 min read
Top Ideas and Posts from 2023
Thankfully I managed to keep up the pace of 1 post every 2 weeks throughout 2023. Just when I think I might be running out of ideas, and...
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