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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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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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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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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Cybersecurity and the Curse of Binary Thinking
Working in information/cybersecurity and technology risk is a fascinating and challenging career, as I’ve covered here. There is, mostly,...
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Jun 19, 20217 min read
The Actual Cybersecurity Workforce Challenge
We continuously hear about the millions of unfilled cybersecurity roles, although I’ve yet to see a study that actually supports that...
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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 22, 20212 min read
Segmentation Technologies / Zero Trust
I first came across the notion of doctrine vs. structure in this depiction about the relative positioning of tanks from some blog or...
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May 13, 20211 min read
Cloud Security
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...
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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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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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Apr 10, 20216 min read
Security Leaders Guide to Managing Stress
Security is a tough job. But it is not uniquely so. Our colleagues in risk, safety, compliance, privacy, and many other disciplines have...
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