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E-Discovery: Stick ‘em Up

– This column is not strictly about information security, although IS has a role to play. Rather, it is covers a topic that should be of significant interest to the people normally concerned with IS – information technology, compliance, and especially the CFO and the CFO. First, a disclaimer. The…

IT and Infosec Insourcing: Could You Do It If You Wanted To?

– There was an article by Timothy Aeppel on the front page of the June 13, 2008 issue of The Wall Street Journal with the title “Stung by Soaring Transport Cost, Factories Bring Jobs Home Again” (subscription required). The article is about manufacturers bringing back some of their…

Security IS a Business Function

– If there is only one key attribute for the success of your information security program, it has to be that security is treated as a business function.  In Chapter 5 of the recently published  “CISO Leadership: Essential Principles for Success”,  the authors break down the components of a…

In Praise of the Information Security Checklist

– This is much anger and venom spit when the subject of the information security checklist is brought up. At one point in my career I looked at the checklist in disdain figuring that only people who do not understand the true depths of a subject relied on checklists as a crutch in place of…

Being a Government Security CISO: Life in the Fishbowl

– Information Security is Information Security, Right? It shouldn’t matter if the organization needing protection is a government agency operating in the public sector or a private enterprise, should it ? Well, technically, no. Essential security practices should be delivered for whichever…