Cybersecurity 5/7

Nov 29, 20203 min read

Simple Rules of (InfoSec) Career Success - Updated

Over the years I've noted the behaviors I’ve seen from consistently successful people. In this context I define success as a balance of...

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Nov 22, 20205 min read

Scenario Planning - The Best Technique You Might Not Be Using

Scenario planning is one of the most underutilized techniques in security. Which is surprising given how effective it is in [good]...

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Nov 8, 20204 min read

Principles for Cybersecurity Metrics

“For every metric, there should be another ‘paired’ metric that addresses adverse consequences of the first metric.” - Andy Grove We talk...

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Nov 1, 20207 min read

The Uncanny Valley of Security (or Why We Might Never Finish Anything)

The uncanny value is a famous term in robotics. It is used to describe how we accept robots that don’t attempt to look too human, but,...

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Oct 25, 20204 min read

Cybersecurity Macro Themes for the 2020’s - Updated

There will be 6 major themes that differentiate great security programs, products, features and processes. These are different from...

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Oct 18, 20203 min read

Why Cybersecurity Budget Benchmarks are a Waste of Time

I have built up a disdain for cybersecurity budgeting benchmarks. To be fair, there are some good attempts amid a sea of haphazard...

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Oct 13, 20202 min read

Vulnerability Management - Updated

It still surprises me that much of the tone of vulnerability management is about patch/bug fix vs. detecting broader configuration and...

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Oct 4, 20204 min read

Security for More than Security’s Sake - The Need for Adjacent Benefits

Truly excellent security programs deliver more than security risk mitigation. I know it is kind of ridiculous to say that when doing the...

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Sep 27, 20205 min read

The Most Important Mental Models for CISOs - Simple Steps for Outsize Effects

There are lots of problem solving techniques across many fields. These are often represented as mental models or behavioral short-cuts....

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Sep 20, 20203 min read

The Rising Tide and the Case for Security Optimism

Continuing with the theme of raising the baseline by reducing the cost of control we can see the next logical progression is that the...

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Sep 13, 20204 min read

Raise the Baseline by Reducing the Cost of Control

One of the most successful techniques for enterprise security in many organizations is to create a universal baseline of controls that...

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Sep 6, 20203 min read

Taking Inventories to the Next Level - Reconciliation and Triangulation

We know it is important to have good inventories across all of the assets we care about in an enterprise. For security purposes this is,...

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Aug 22, 20203 min read

Cybersecurity Workforce Development - Updated

It is still somewhat frustrating that most of the dialog about the skills shortage in cybersecurity focuses, perhaps inevitably, on the...

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Aug 8, 20203 min read

Insider Threat - Blast Radius Perspective - Updated

Of the vast canon of insightful commentary that has come from Dan Geer over many years, one that especially stuck with me was his...

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Aug 1, 202010 min read

Cybersecurity and the Board : A Fresh Perspective?

How to represent cybersecurity (or technology / information risks more generally) to the Board is an ongoing subject of discussion in...

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Jul 25, 20204 min read

Compliance vs. Security

It is sad that many security discussions are so binary: that is, if you’re not wildly for something then you must be wildly against it....

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Jul 18, 20203 min read

Threat Intelligence - Updated

This is an update from a thread that became a post last year. Threat intelligence seems, at least to me, to get maligned too much. For...

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Jul 12, 20203 min read

Security Leadership: A-grades vs. Pass/Fail

The underlying secret of most great security leaders and teams is one thing: the ability to know what needs to be done really well vs....

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Jun 7, 20204 min read

Are Security Incidents Really Increasing?

I see regular waves of articles and commentary that assert : “We are spending more and more on security but security incidents / breaches...

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May 17, 20203 min read

Crypto isn’t the Only Cyber Issue in a Post Quantum World

Let’s assume general purpose quantum computers that can operate usefully at scale are coming. I think a reasonable timeframe is 15 years....

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