RISK & CYBERSECURITY

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...

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...

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...

Cyber deterrence is a topic that comes in and out of vogue. It is widely studied but often misunderstood. It also suffers tremendously...

It has always struck me how well the field of finance and more specifically accounting has done to standardize on its terms. This...

This is an update from a post of a couple of years ago prompted by some recent observations from a few different organizations. It seems...

We talk about attackers being the enemy. Sometimes we talk about insider threats. But one of our biggest enemies is pernicious...

Working in information/cybersecurity and technology risk is a fascinating and challenging career, as I’ve covered here. There is, mostly,...

We continuously hear about the millions of unfilled cybersecurity roles, although I’ve yet to see a study that actually supports that...

I first came across the notion of doctrine vs. structure in this depiction about the relative positioning of tanks from some blog or...

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...

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,...