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Tag Archives: CISO

We Are Secure and Compliant – You Can Go Now! A Story of a Disturbing Trend

– In the past 2 months several members of my CSO Breakfast Club have been let go from their positions as senior level information security bosses.  One was let go from a top 20 law firm, another from an international Fortune 1000 company, and the other from a spinoff of a large, international…

Top 5 Things CISOs Should Do During This Bad Economy?

– Whenever my personal budget is down and I am concerned about tightening my belt I seem to always turn to fixing things in my home. While my wife would prefer that our household budget always be up rather than down, she seems happy when I suddenly begin completing half-done projects around the…

Distributed Security for Fun and Profit…

– Global organizations often have challenges creating a comprehensive security program.  Too much central control and the regions either feel ignored, so chafe at security cost allocations and pay only nominal attention to the program, causing great risk to the overall organization.  Or they fill…

Corporate Governance: A Dirty Word or a Dirty Job?

– Corporate governance is in the limelight. No one wanted it, not many embrace it. But it’s here and here to stay, thanks to the horrifying outcomes vis-a-vis criminal activity leading to the failures of Enron, Worldcomm and the likes. In the newly published anthology, CISO Leadership:…

It’s All About the People: Assessing Your Organization’s Network Perimeter (pt. 4)

– Welcome once again to the risk rack. This time on the risk rack we will be continuing our review of how to assess your organization’s network perimeter. As a reminder the identified steps were: Step 1: Define the functions and purposes of your network perimeter. Step 2: Assess the technology…