A keynote I gave to GDSCon 2017 on how security practitioners should engage with senior executives. Talking Up Security from Phil Huggins FBCS CITP
Category: Management
Strategic Security Management Challenges
I was recently asked by a consultancy firm to provide a keynote talking about the challenges I had faced as a security leader during my career and how the consultancy could start thinking about how to help people in my position. I appreciated the customer-first orientation they were adopting, refreshing in…
The Future of Security Automation.
It is entirely possible I am about to have a flying car moment. Recently I have been asked by a variety of product vendors and security consultancies for my opinions on the future direction of security and where they should be focusing their innovation efforts. I’m honestly not sure why…
Not so basic but definitely essential.
We keep talking about new shiny, and increasingly fragile, controls that will prevent attacks or fiendishly clever algorithms or AI to which we can outsource all that hard or fast thinking we’re not good at but we are all still staring down the barrels of a loaded data breach gun waiting…
Measuring Security
For nearly a decade I have been regularly coming back to one of the hardest problems in security, measuring it. There are lots of opinions and no shortage of books full of candidate metrics and there are swathes of consultants prepared to give you a spreadsheet of metrics to go measure…