Tag: ciso-series
All the articles with the tag "ciso-series".
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The Illusion of Green: Why Your Board is Right to Doubt the Dashboard
When a CISO presents a green dashboard to a board, the resulting skepticism isn't a failure of communication. It is a sophisticated recognition that cybersecurity operates under adversarial rules.
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What a Well-Run CISO Search Actually Looks Like
The candidate who fits the culture effortlessly is not always the same as the candidate who is right for where the program needs to go.
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Adaptive Threats Expose Ineffective Risk Assessments
An organization can implement every control in a cyber risk framework and still get breached. The difference is usually the risk assessment, and when it's weak, the result is misaligned controls and resilience plans built on assumptions instead of business priorities.
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What Three Casino Breaches Can Teach Every Organization
Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters have hit three major casino operators over two years using social engineering techniques that have been publicly documented the entire time. Each time, they refined their approach. The gaps they exploited aren't unique to gaming.
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Threat Response Without Business Context Is Just Firefighting
Organizations catalog threats, estimate likelihoods, and call it risk management. But if they never started with business priorities, they don't have the context to decide which threats actually warrant attention.
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Turn Risk Assessment into Business Alignment
A risk assessment built around business priorities turns executives into stakeholders. When the strategy reflects their concerns, security leaders stop selling and start executing. The programs that get support are the ones the business helped build.
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Resilience by Design: Using Risk Assessment to Inform Architecture Decisions
AWS US-EAST-1 has had eleven major outages in fourteen years. That's not a theoretical risk, it's a documented pattern. Whether your architecture accounts for it should come down to math, not assumptions. Risk assessment gives you the numbers to make that call.