At the Privacy & Security Forum: What I Said
Focus is over-rated when you’re starting out. The original idea for my presentation at The Privacy & Security Forum in Washington, D.C. was to talk exclusively on how security controls…
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Back to Vendor ListingsIoT Security: Think Beyond Data
In today’s Internet of Things (IoT) world, every device can communicate and be connected to the Internet – from your refrigerator to your lights and cars. IoT’s glitter is often…
An Open Letter to Vendors — Part 2
In Part I, I gave you some food for thought about getting your message out there in a clean, crisp, and concise way. In the second installment of my Open…
At the Privacy & Security Forum: What I Saw
Privacy folks and security folks were finally intermingling by design and not by accident or through one or the other being adventurous. I’m a huge proponent of the two being…
Encryption: To Be Or Not to Be
All financial institutions and retailers are looking for solutions to protect credit card and other sensitive data from the moment the magnetic stripe of the payment card is swiped through…
A CISO Checklist: How to Reduce the Silo Effect
As a CISO or an executive responsible for the Information Security organization at your company, one thing that you ought to keep in real focus is the Silo Effect. Be…
Breaking the Chain
By now most of us have heard of the phrase kill chain. For those of you that haven’t heard of it, the kill chain is a phase-based model used to…
Why I look Forward to October
Life on a college campus changes in the Fall. In a way, just like the seasons, life in higher ed is very cyclical, and the beginning of the semester is…
The Ever Evolving Role of the Chief Information Security Officer
Over the past few years, there has been an uptick in cybercrime on a mass scale, with hackers gaining access to personal information of millions of people. Breaches at well-known,…
It’s Time to Put Common Sense into Security
A few weeks ago, my son and his family came to visit us from Japan (he is a Captain in the Marine Corps and stationed there). We took a day…