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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May 410 min read
Where the Wild Things Are: Second Order Risks of AI
Every major technological change is heralded with claims of significant, even apocalyptic, risks. These almost never turn out to be...
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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 279 min read
Leadership Transitions - 10 Steps for Success
Many of us have been through several leadership transitions in our careers. It could be a new role in the same or different organization....
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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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