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Category Archives: CSO/CISO Perspectives

Security in the Dark

– I attended a roundtable recently at which someone mentioned that, in their experience, those familiar contractual requirements requesting third-party service providers to tell their customers about security breaches within a short time frame (within three  hours, say) are often not conveyed to…

The Security of Fools

– No, I’m NOT saying that security professionals are fools … far from it. But many of the folks whom they serve may well be overconfident in their judgments about security. Overconfidence in the face of undisputable evidence to the contrary is described in Daniel Kahneman’s article “The…

Will Cloud Security Drive You Insane?

– First, the transparency … I have known Jim Reavis, co-founder of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), for a dozen years or so. He is a true visionary. He met with me before creating the CSA and asked me what I thought. I told him to go for it. He did and has had remarkable success [...] …

So-so SASO … So What?

– A couple of days ago, I happened across Oracle CISO Mary Ann Davidson’s August 24, 2011 blog, “Those Who Can’t Do, Audit” at http://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/those_who_can_t_do and began writing a column about Davidson’s blog. Then I was pointed to Veracode’s Chris…

Risk Mismanagement – Scoring vs. Monte Carlo vs. Scoring

– I finally got to read Douglas Hubbard’s book “The Failure of Risk Management: Why It’s Broken and How to Fix It” (Wiley, 2009). As I have written in other columns about Hubbard’s prior book “How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business” (Wiley, 2007; Second…