An Open Letter to Security Vendors
So tell me – did you hear the news?? Apparently the rumors are indeed true. 2015 is the year of the Security Startup. And in the words of the greatest…
CISO Insights
Back to Vendor ListingsEverything is Compromised
Internet of Things (IoT) means everything is potentially connected everywhere and with everyone. Assume it is all compromised. As the volume of IoT grows, we should better understand the implications…
A CISO Checklist: 10 Deadly Sins
According to ITRC (Identity Theft Resource Center), in 2015 thus far there have been over 450 breaches with over 135 million records exposed. They define a breach as an event…
Information Security: Learning From the Past to Improve Our Future
Things were simpler in the past. I know we hear that sometimes and to a certain degree this is true. It is also true that he who forgets the past…
How Saving a Buck will Undermine Security Every Time
I just saw an article stating that Chrysler is sending out USB drives to car owners to update the WiFi connect features in their Jeeps. For those of you that missed…
Security Talent Management: Leveraging The “Cool”
I happened to watch the movie “The Duff” recently. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a 2015 teenage comedy film with a plot along the lines of “The Breakfast Club”…
A CISO’s Top 5 To Do’s in the First 90 Days
As many of you know, starting a new job can be challenging in and of itself. It involves learning a new culture, understanding company values, as well as basic things such as…
OPM Breach: Why Doing the Basics is Not Easy
The recent Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach may be the largest breach of Federal records ever. With the resignation of OPM Director Katherine Archuleta over the compromise of the newly…
Are We Painting Ourselves into a Technological Corner? The NYSE, United Airlines and WSJ Tech Glitches
It was a bad day for the Internet. At some time that morning, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) shut down, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) web site broke and the United Airlines…
Afterthoughts: Big Data and Us Little People
The original series was written in a frenzy. Aggregating is the inverse of broadcasting. Aggregation is biased towards anonymity. Being the subject of a data point is a matter of…