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CEO to CISO: 3 Cybersecurity Value Drivers

  It was just about 10 years ago that I made the tricky transition from fighter pilot to IT/cyber professional. The first challenge I identified was the tremendous gap in language, perception and understanding between those who made the strategic leadership decisions for the organization

Keys to Better User Training

It is widely documented that users are the biggest vulnerability in our cybersecurity ecosystem.  Technical solutions and policy are all foundational and necessary, but a single careless user or a deliberate shadow IT practitioner can easily expose the business to serious threats.  As a result, companies

A Director’s Guide to Cybersecurity “Certification”

Boards get it, they need to exercise the same level of oversight regarding cybersecurity as they do with financial statements.  The difference is there is a well-developed set of standards governing financial accounting with associated audits and examinations.  The standards are not as well defined

Somebody has to kill the Archer!

President-elect Trump has stated that he is going to task the Joint Chiefs to come up with a plan to defend U.S. critical infrastructure in cyberspace.  That in turn has generated a number of opinion pieces and conversations lamenting the fact that the President-elect does

C’mon, is this as far as we have come?

So I just read another article about how boards and c-suites will begin to get serious about cybersecurity in 2017.  (http://www.information-age.com/changing-role-cio-boardroom-2017-123463403/) I am chagrined and frustrated by the fact we continue to make essentially the same three points year after year: Boards need to ensure