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Every Business Should Join a Peer Group for Cybersecurity
Earlier this year I shared my thoughts with you about the new program for small and mid-sized enterprises from the cybersecurity association (the ISSA.org) making cybersecurity expertise available to...
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Steve Hunt’s Free eBook for Security Managers
When I asked many of you, my peers in IT, if it would be helpful to have a playbook for security management like those used by the best quarterbacks or midfielders or point guards (pick your sport!),...
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“Yes, Commissioner. We’ll get right on it.”
Recently I was asked to describe the services of Hunt Business Intelligence. I said, “It’s like picking up the bat phone and getting expert help for any security question or challenge.” That’s a good...
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Six Sad Security Management Flaws You Can Fix Today
Are you one of the lucky few NOT suffering from these six costly management problems? To learn my Four Steps to Security Maturity, and to find out your organization’s Security Success Score™ click...
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Free Tool for Improving Cyber Maturity
This week, the ISSA (ISSA.org) announced a free online tool available to all cyber security professionals. It is being offered as part of its partnership with the Alliance for Performance Excellence,...
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The NIST CyberSecurity Framework has Never Been So Easy to Follow
Are you finally ready to improve the maturity of your organization’s CyberSecurity program but not sure where to start? The NIST CyberSecurity Framework is an excellent path to success, but it will...
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Famed security adviser, Steve Hunt explains, “Why I Hate Security.”
Famed security adviser, Steve Hunt explains, “Why I Hate Security.” These criticisms of cybersecurity and risk management are nothing new. You’ve heard them all before, or muttered them under our...
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When best intentions are not enough: a business manager’s view of outsourcing...
Security managers try their best. They deploy firewalls and intrusion detection systems like they are supposed to, along with antivirus, web content filtering, encryption and policies. Yet when it...
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When IT and Security leaders don’t see eye to eye
Helplessly standing by, I watched as the new CIO dismantled a carefully crafted NIST-compliant security program. Why would he do such a thing? Unplugging the intrusion detection? Tossing out the threat...
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An “Aha!” moment three decades in the making
Artist and philosopher Mitsuo Kakutani told me something that changed my life and business forever–though it only soaked in thirty years later. He said that in our twenties we kick up our heels; in our...
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The business lesson we learn from Formula One
It was Rhonda MacLean, the former global chief information security officer at Bank of America, who first told me the now famous aphorism of security. “Why do we have brakes on a car?” she asked. “To...
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Hacking Tweeps: Twitter and LinkedIn as social engineering tools
“My internal marketing department is looking to issue a communication around Twitter account security (with a business focus).” Use of Twitter is growing, not only between individuals connecting with...
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Why Worry About Public Surveillance? Are you Hiding Something?
In the aftermath of the killing in Ferguson, MO, three police officers – none of whom are from the Ferguson police department – were suspended after blatantly racist and extremist comments and...
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Google says Don’t Worry
“Google Says Not to Worry About 5 Million ‘Gmail Passwords’ Leaked” So said a headline on forbes.com. If you have a gmail account, were you at all concerned that your email address and password was...
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Convincing the skeptical CIO to support security
I have a new client, a billion-dollar service company, whose CIO is going to test my skills. He is suspicious about security and risk management, and questions everything. I should be happy, but I’m...
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Prioritizing is the Key to Defending against Advanced Threats
Here are some helpful tips for the security manager who wants the right governance in light of advanced threats. Most organizations have struggled for years with just cleaning and prioritizing security...
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Four ways to build a more empowered security team
Every Chief Security Officer, CISO, and risk manager I know believes that their security and risk operation has strengths and weaknesses; in some areas best practices reign supreme, and in others the...
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Unusual Data Breaches, and other posts
I am a guest blogger at a number of other sites. Here is a sampling a some of my recent posts. The greatest threat to data is also the least studied Physical loss of information was difficult to...
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New CISO at Target
Photo Courtesy of Target Target named its new CISO today. Brad Maiorino will fill a newly created post called senior vice president and chief information security officer. When the Target search began,...
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The Snowden conversation we are all having in one way or another…
Edward Snowden (source Wikipedia) Edward Snowden did one important thing: He made an important conversation on security and ethics popular and international. One one hand, he told us something we...
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