Articles on Leadership

• Risk Management Why Are Executives More Prone to Accept Risks?
  Research links high status and power to greater trust in others and overconfidence in one's own knowledge. Executives may accept security risks while being overly trusting and without spending...
• Communication Balancing Brevity and Verbosity in Business Communications
  Brevity is usually the right call. The harder skill is knowing when to go long.
• Social Networking Twitter Social Networking Among Information Security People
  Twitter offers three-fold value for security professionals: discovering curated content (users act as content curators), interacting with peers (social stigmas almost non-existent), and researching...
• Leadership 9 Convenient Lies in Cybersecurity
  Familiar security claims like "we use AES-256" or "we're SOC 2 compliant" are technically true. Each one omits conditions that determine risk, and we need to communicate them carefully to avoid...
• Leadership Saying Something Nice About Information Security
• Tools Common Failures of Information Security Tools (Part 2)
  HIPS can miss attacks or wrongly block legitimate actions. Log management may fail to capture necessary events or confuse analysts with poor reporting. Vulnerability management tools may miss patches...