The True Scope of Posture Management
What's the true scope of posture management? You'll know you're on the right path when the security org is more focused on Prevention Engineering than on Detection (and Response) Engineering.
39 posts
Growth that Builds, Growth that Breaks
You've probably heard it said that "healthy things grow". That's not true. Cancer also grows. What we can say for sure is that alive (or dynamic) things grow; whether that growth is beneficial or destructive is a different question.
The Now-and-Not-Yet Tension in our Careers
Remember the medieval quarry worker’s creed: “We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.” You're both the quarry worker, and the stones. The question is, what are you building?
AI Risks: Net-New or Amplifier?
Track the risks. Just make sure that the risks are the actual risks, so that the problems you fix are the actual problems.
How Focusing on Strategy Perpetuates the Problem
Strategy is easy. Execution is where the wheels come off.
Cybersecurity is a System
China found out the hard way that no one escapes the interdependencies of complex systems. We make the same mistakes in cybersecurity today.
You Can Be Profound, or You Can Be Effective—Pick One
The pressure to be profound is such a stumbling block in our industry. It emphasises the sophisticated over…
Here’s What You Should Do Today About All These Outages: Nothing
Smart leaders don't react, they respond. Now is not the time to wax poetic about the world we left behind, or follow the reactionists backwards towards a demonstrably worse risk position.
From the Recorded Future Podcast: A Conversation with CISO Jason Steer About Identity Security
From my conversation with Recorded Future, two short, essential videos about identity security: how we got here, why it matters, and why it's so hard to do well.
What England’s Underwhelming Team of Football All-Stars Can Teach Us About Cybersecurity
If you want to understand the platform vs best-of-breed debate, look no further than England's football team.