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Successful security leaders don’t quit in the face of obstacles. They go the extra mile for their security program and understand that cybersecurity isn’t just a technical problem. It’s a people and organizational problem. That makes it critical to align… Continue reading
IT staff and developers have had to rework many business processes and applications to operate entirely online, and built up a lot of technical debt in the process. Sooner or later, they’ll need to re-architect and re-factor to reduce the… Continue reading
Balancing what we’d like to do from the pure security control perspective with the need to align solutions with the business is a recurring theme in my book, Rational Cybersecurity for Business. The actual book is publishing very soon –… Continue reading
When the CISO doesn’t report at the right level of an organization, misalignment between security, IT, the business, and the larger public ecosystems it serves will surely result. Such misalignment often leads to dire consequences, increasing the chance of breaches… Continue reading
Could it be that a simple misunderstanding of what cybersecurity means is creating much of the disconnect between business and security leaders that often makes security programs ineffective? According to one security leader who’s worked as a Chief Information Security… Continue reading
My book, Rational Cybersecurity for Business: The Security Leader’s Guide to Business Alignment contains 50 Keys to Alignment that accentuate the guidance. I’m writing about these keys in a “50 keys” blog series. This page conveniently summarizes all the keys… Continue reading
As the “COVID-19 shutdown” pushes businesses into what I call “forced digitalization” – with everyone teleworking – it could be easy for IT and security professionals to become all-consumed by basic operational issues. Just keeping the Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)… Continue reading
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