RISK & CYBERSECURITY

A few weeks ago The White House published our PCAST report on cyber-physical resilience. Thank you for all the positive reactions to...

We still have plenty of open problems in information and cybersecurity (InfoSec). Many of these problems are what could easily be classed...

Each year, DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) within Google Cloud publishes the excellent State of DevOps report. The 2023 report...

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...

Ever since I first became familiar with the 80/20 principle, and other circumstances marked by Pareto distributions, I began to see...

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...

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...

There are still plenty of organizations that don’t have a well defined and accessible bug bounty program. More surprisingly, there are...

The great thing about the security industry is it’s made up of a variety of roles and people from many backgrounds, disciplines, skill...

Since the last post about leverage points in managing complex systems I thought it would be good to revisit and update a post from a few...

Security is an emergent property of the complex systems we inhabit. In other words, security isn’t a thing that you do, rather it's a...

Unless you’re doing continuous or quarterly budgeting, which some organizations do, then you’ll no doubt be getting ready for the long...

As an industry we spend a lot of time talking about workforce development and skills shortages. However, we tend not to talk about how to...

Maturing a security program in any type of organization is not just to increase specific control effectiveness but also to increase its...

Just over a year ago I put out this blog post on the 10 fundamental (but really hard) security metrics. Since then I’ve discussed this...

In the last post we talked about the challenges and opportunities of using individual and organizational incentives to ensure effective...

Force 5 : Complex Systems break in Unpredictable Ways // Central Idea: While component level simplicity is vital, seeking to eliminate...

Force 4 : Entropy is King // Central Idea: Adopting a control reliability engineering mindset by continuous control monitoring is...

Force 3 : Services want to be on // Central Idea: Take architectural steps to inherently reduce your attack surface - don’t just rely...

Force 2 : Code wants to be wrong // Central Idea: Shift from a pure focus on only reducing security vulnerabilities towards increasing...