One acronym after another. An ice cream headache, for sure, trying to understand the similarities, differences and connectivity between all these terms. You need to do it, however. Simplify, simplify, simplify. Break it down and truly comprehend everything. Get ready for the proverbial elevator speech, if the need for one materializes. Toward that goal, here[…]
There’s a lingering belief that these are IT management concerns. That lingering belief is founded upon a “perceived reality” of a business operating in an environment where IT was little more than a contributing discipline to complete tasks and deliver efficiency. It made some narrow sense in a world free of cyber anything, pre-internet, where[…]
Almost every blog entry listed here makes some reference to a Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software tool and how it can help you manage cyber risk. But what if you don’t have one of these? What about spreadsheets? Or home grown database tools you made yourself and are certain are “good enough”? And suppose[…]
The modern battlefield has a new extension—cyberspace! And the modern battlefield is no longer confined to simple geographies of land masses, airspace, oceans, valleys and mountains. Better (more destructive) bombs, missiles, rockets, guns, and fighter aircraft, weren’t enough for us feisty humans. Just as the global economy has blurred once sharply defined geographical and economic[…]
Thirty-five years ago, my first article was published in a professional journal. It was the outgrowth of a talk I gave at a business conference on the use of computer generated graphical information reporting. In 1987 those technologies were in their infancy. Computerized business graphics, pie, line, and bar charts, generated using desktop systems and[…]
December brings more to our days than images of bright lights, holiday cheer, family gatherings, and for some, maybe a sprinkling of snow. In our work-realm of business and cyber risk management, it’s a time for reflection, refinement, and preparation for the year to come. Unless your business is retail or related, and you’re panting[…]
There are few buzz phrases in IT risk and security today with as much clout as “Zero Trust” and “Digital Twins”. Both represent significant departures from legacy practices that comprise much of the planning, design, and activity of current IT risk and security programs for many organizations, large and small alike. In a past posting[…]
There is a whole category of threats to cyber risk and security often ignored despite its potential to impose catastrophic disruption and damage—business interruption! We attend to human malice in many forms, and its diverse efforts to gain unauthorized access to secure information, capture control of devices and systems, or perform all kinds of mischief[…]
Overview“It is the policy of my Administration that the prevention, detection, assessment, and remediation of cyber incidents is a top priority and essential to national and economic security. The Federal Government must lead by example.”[1] So states the Executive Order (EO) on Improving The Nation’s Cybersecurity! Noble by intent, and certainly appropriate, it has not[…]
Summertime, and the living is, once again, easy—sort of. Just a few summers ago these were the days of occasional remote work, long weekends, holidays, vacations, and for some companies, shortened “summer hours”. As our work routines have made the separation of office, work, and personal time a fluid continuum, our risk perimeter and footprint[…]