Just published first chapter draft of the my latest book: “CyberSecurity Arm Wrestling: Winning the perpetual fight against crime by building a modernSecurity Operations Center“. This chapter is available for immediate download by clicking here. The chapter covers the following … Continue reading
Like last year, ransomware continues to be a major issue for many organizations. One of the best things any organization can do to itself is to prepare for dealing with ransomware incidents. While ransomware is morphing into crypto currency mining … Continue reading
SOC Planning – Defining SOC Scope Defining scope for the SOC is crucial for its success and to determine stakeholders for the SOC. The scope will help determine cost, associates needed to run the SOC, SOC processes and many other … Continue reading
Note: An updated version of CISO MindMap (2018) is published here While Ransomware may be the talk of the town these days, many other profound changes are happening in the industry that impact job of information security professionals. Keeping in … Continue reading
ROSI or Return On Security Investment is simply a way to calculate if a security control is worth implementation or not. For a control to be financially viable, the reduction of risk has to be greater than the cost of … Continue reading
How do you align yourself with the business you are supporting? What value are you creating? These are the questions that every CISO should be thinking on regular basis. In a typical organization, the CEO has a list of business … Continue reading
Please note that this is an older post An updated MindMap available here. It took some time to update the CISO MindMap but finally it is here. Thanks to all who provided suggestions for this update. A very rapid change … Continue reading
There are almost as many information security reports out there as the number of security vendors. Keeping up to date about these reports could be a challenge and sometimes these reports may become an information overload for security professionals. Verizon … Continue reading
SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis is an industry standard way of analyzing current situation (marketing, business strategy, risk assessment, etc). In many cases, SWOT analysis provides foundation for creating business strategy. Following is a short description of how we … Continue reading
The role of CISO, and other InfoSec professionals, has morphed into a critical business function. One should expect getting involved in “business” discussion often, and at higher levels. Understanding and speaking business language is more important than ever for success … Continue reading
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