Booth Babes Banned at RSA – A CSO’s View
Posted on: 02 May 2015
While I was unable to attend RSA this year, after reading Chenxi Wang’s LinkedIn post on ‘Booth Babes’, I have to say… It’s about damn time. To briefly recount a personal experience,…
Plight of Passwords
Posted on: 15 Feb 2015
I read an article recently about how a CISO talked his way out of having an internal auditor write up a finding about weak passwords – which eventually lead to…
Business Continuity Planning, The CISOs Secret Weapon
Posted on: 26 Jan 2015
BCP. Three little letters that, unfortunately, strike mind-numbing boredom into most CIOS’s. The truth is, Business Continuity Planning isn’t synonymous with the excitement that is typically found in the Information…
From the War Room to the Boardroom – The True Elevation of the CISO
Posted on: 21 Nov 2014
In the aftermath of the Target breach, there has been a lot of press on the need for a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in the boardroom. The Wall Street…
The Time for F.U.D. is Over… Long Live F.U.D…
Posted on: 24 Sep 2014
I’ve been known to say that ‘I’ve been in InfoSec since before it was cool.’ After 20 years of being on the front lines, first as a consultant, then as…