Regulating cybersecurity, and data protection in general, is driven by two needs; to clearly explain the expectations that society has for the organisations that society is increasingly dependent on, to provide a mechanism for the unmanaged externalities to those organisations (the societal and personal harm from breaches) to be realised…
Category: Management
Invest in the CIO, before the CISO
I’ve written before about how IT delivery is a crucial limiting factor for cybersecurity outcomes and on how cyber hygiene is mostly not in the security teams control. I’ve come to realise that I also don’t think that IT delivery quality is in the IT teams control either. I recently…
Value of Security
The role of security in business is constantly up for debate, a growing movement in the UK around adopting some of Simon Wardley‘s approaches to strategy to a security strategy has started some interesting conversations again. For years security was seen as the department of no or the guys that…
Insider Risk Management
Insiders are legitimate, trusted, individuals we rely on as part of our business activities.
Making Sense of Cyber. Part Two.
In my previous post, I introduced the Cynefin framework. The Cynefin framework provides a lens to understand the best approach to making decisions and taking action depending on the environment or landscape in which you are operating. The Cynefin Framework immediately chimed with my experience of how we, as an…