Communicating Security Value: We Are Failing
Why is it that decades in, cybersecurity still struggles to communicate its value to the business?
We have dozens of standards and frameworks and methodologies. Excellent books about quantifying cyber risk. Countless we...
Conform or ?
Jeff Bezos' final letter as Amazon CEO is a masterpiece:
"The world wants you to be typical – in a thousand ways, it pulls at you. Don’t let it happen... You have to pay a price for your distinctiveness, and it’s worth ...
SolarWinds CISO Says "Security Execs Are Nervous"
SolarWinds CISO Tim Brown says security execs are ‘nervous’ about personal liability. Should they be?
Let’s talk about that ‘C’ and ‘O’ in CISO—mostly silent, right? Until a breach or an SEC inquiry. Where exactly does ...
True Innovation is Revolutionary
True innovation is revolutionary. It takes courage to break with the comfort of established positions and reach for the promise of the unknown and the unexplored. When we speak about the "culture of innovation," we must ...
CISO Recruiting is Broken
Nearly 2000 applications in 2 weeks to a single CISO role paying $200K-225K/yr. All that "demand" for cybersecurity talent we've been told about for years - wherever it is, it's not in the leadership echelon.
Granted, m...
Ghost Jobs Making Job Search More Frustrating
Imagine pouring hours into perfecting an application, completing multi-round interviews, and even taking unpaid assignments—only to discover the role might not even exist. Sound familiar?
Buying your way to security? Think again.
Security is complex. So what?
Does that give us an excuse for constantly failing in the only real way that matters: keeping the enterprise entrusted to us safe?
What other field would it be acceptable to fail constantl...
What are you trying to accomplish?
Love seeing "management" drivel debunked. Anyone who's spent any serious time in big corporate knows the mindnumbing pursuit of metrics as its own function and purpose. It's anathema to ever question why something is bei...
Everybody Wants to be a CISO... till it's time to do CISO stuff
If you haven't checked out the latest analysis of the cyber labor market by Ira Winkler, please do yourself a favor and read up: https://lnkd.in/e8ViD_XQ
Ira is confirming what we've all been seeing for quite some time:...
Cybersecurity Marketing: Spaghetti, Meet Wall
Cybersecurity marketing (read: marketers) seems to be particularly susceptible to the idea that simply throwing enough spaghetti at the wall is the recipe for success.
When that "strategy" fails, they blame, in no parti...