How Not to Gamble with Your IT Security Strategy
It’s no secret that I love Las Vegas and all it has to offer including gambling. To me, this is a natural affection due to what I do in my…
DetailsPath to a Career in Cyber and Key Tools
In the first two parts in my series, a “Path to a Career in Cyber” and a “Path to a Career in Cyber Part and Then Some,” I explained how I…
DetailsPath to a Career in Cyber and Then Some
Part one in the series Path to a Career in Cyber can be read here In my first article “Path to a Career in Cyber” I explained how I got into IT and…
DetailsNo Book to Be By
In some cases, hiring a project manager is the most sensible thing you can do. A seemingly can’t miss action that preserves the status quo while getting the organization where…
DetailsCISOs – Maintaining the Vision
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision – Helen Keller According to a newly released report, 54% of security professionals said they were under…
DetailsMy Parents Taught Me to Share, So What’s the Big Deal?
President Obama wants private sector companies to share information about cybersecurity threats with each other – and the government. That sounds like a novel idea – and some industries already…
DetailsPath to a Career in Cyber
When I started my career in the US Navy, almost three decades ago, I originally went into the field of advanced electronics. It was close to what I wanted to…
DetailsCybersecurity Comes to Prime Time
I watched the latest show in the “CSI” franchise last night – CSI: Cyber (on CBS) and my thoughts were “There goes the neighborhood.” I must say that I’m not…
DetailsAudited and Jaded
A company I know was audited some years ago. One of the findings was that there were no Unix server logs. Over the next year server logging was enabled. The…
DetailsCyber, It’s All About the Maybe
As a CISO, you will find your job requires you to have experience in many areas. As the leading cyber security executive for your organization you will be expected to…
DetailsRisk Averse. Rule Averse.
It’s 2 in the morning. You are stopped at a well-lit, completely empty intersection looking up at a red light. If you’re like me, you will wait till that light…
DetailsPlight of Passwords
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…
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