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Mar 26, 20227 min read
Resilience is about Capabilities not Plans - Updated
Over the past 2 years, since I wrote the first version of this post, we’ve had a lot of opportunity to test our collective resilience....
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Mar 12, 20229 min read
Human Error
Human error is not an explanation, rather it is something to be explained. In analyzing and learning from incidents, not just security...
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Feb 26, 20224 min read
Controls - Updated
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...
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Jan 1, 20227 min read
The Obvious CISO : Don’t Overlook the Simple
There is a great little book I read recently, “Obvious Adams - The Story of a Successful Businessman", it’s available on Amazon, but it’s...
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Dec 18, 20213 min read
Risk Megatrends - Updated
Megatrends are long-term, large-scale forces that shape the world around us. They are the driving forces that have tactical consequences...
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Dec 4, 20218 min read
How is the Security Profession Doing?
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...
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Nov 20, 20214 min read
Security Program Tactics - Updated
When starting or reinvigorating a security program, focus on a small number of meta-objectives that can have sustained outsize effects in...
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Nov 6, 20216 min read
Slipstreaming : Business Tactics for Security & Control Implementation
One of the most frequent cybersecurity binary thinking curses is that just because senior leadership in organizations won’t do every...
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Oct 9, 20213 min read
The Leading Indicators of a Great Info/Cybersecurity Program - Updated
As we see more incidents occurring, whether ransomware, data breaches or fraud, many thoughts turn to how to know whether those we do...
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Sep 12, 20218 min read
If Accounting were like Cybersecurity
It has always struck me how well the field of finance and more specifically accounting has done to standardize on its terms. This...
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Aug 27, 20213 min read
Risk Management is not only about Reducing Risk - Updated
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...
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Aug 14, 20219 min read
Risk = Hazard + Outrage
There are four major insights that, above all others, have influenced my approach to security and risk management over the past decades....
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Jul 30, 20217 min read
CISO: Archeologist, Historian or Explorer?
We talk about attackers being the enemy. Sometimes we talk about insider threats. But one of our biggest enemies is pernicious...
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Jul 16, 20218 min read
Cybersecurity - The Board's Perspective
How Boards, especially public company Boards, oversee cybersecurity is a crucial but difficult topic. This previous post discussed how...
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Jun 5, 20216 min read
Relationship Management for the InfoSec Program
A key part of any security leader's role is relationship management. In my experience this is another one of those leadership skills that...
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May 8, 20217 min read
Is Complexity the Enemy of Security?
One of the many pieces of accepted wisdom in information/cybersecurity is that complexity is the enemy of security. But is it? You...
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Apr 24, 20211 min read
Leadership, Business, Security and Risk Reading List
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...
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Mar 27, 20215 min read
Cybersecurity : The Winner’s Game and The Loser’s Game
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...
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Mar 13, 20214 min read
Return on Investment for Security
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,...
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Feb 13, 20214 min read
Research Challenges in Info/Cybersecurity - Part 2: “Carbon”
This is the second part of the post from 2 weeks ago, which explored research challenges in Info/Cybersecurity related to systems:...
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