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A story of how three different people can react in different ways to the same situation. Why is that?
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Cybersecurity is hard enough. Doing it across federal agencies is a mammoth task.
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Authentication and integrity mechanisms have been in use for thousands of years! One of those methods was the wax seal, with references as early as the…
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A simple outline of tasks and goals a new security leader will need to tackle in their first 90 days.
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What started as a simple guide, became a 2000+ word brain dump of my past years' experience and learnings of Defcon. From Tickets to Villages to Digital…
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It's budget time... here are some things to consider as you shore up your infosec program.
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IT Support is one of those areas in early stage companies that often gets neglected. Often, companies believe that since people are technical, there’s…
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It means so many things to many people... let's go over it.
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There are different security orgs out there... some are glamping, others are backpacking on a shoestring. Let's explore the different kinds out there...
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A 1-page doc I previously wrote for a client summarizing in plain English the various tactical approaches towards SOC 2. It's also to dispel the…
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Had an excellent discussion with another CISO on what companies actually need (or have the capacity for), especially when first starting out. For…
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If you are a SaaS company with thousands of customers, you probably have some sort of internal admin tool. I have personally come across many of these…
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