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I have to say I am excited!

I have wanted to host a regional security conference for a long while, and now it is about to happen. Read More

From my RSA 2015 panel, “When Will InfoSec Grow Up?”

What do you think? Will the CISO evolve into CIRO? Does the CISO belong under the CIO, or maybe just operational security?  I personally think 2018 is an aggressive timeframe since many organizations still don’t have a formal CISO defined and 20% of CIOs claim they don’t think they need a CISO. It seems to me we need to inform the board (externally) with what a forward leaning organization should expect in a CISO and drive change from the top down, rather than bottom up.

If this is how you view security architecture, you are doomed to failure. Tools alone cannot keep up with threats, or solve all our problems.

I just wrapped up a great podcast with the Security Advisor Alliance, moderated by Neil Thacker. This neat idea for an organization is something that Jason Clark (CSO/Accuvant) brought to me two years ago, when he was at Websense, and I am really happy to see it coming to fruition.

The Security Advisor Alliance is a coalition of a couple dozen experienced CISOs, who are willing to donate some of their personal time each month to advise and give back to the security community. It’s a great idea and so if you attend RSA Conference, look for me or find Jason Clark and ask about how you can get involved! Read More

I am very glad to be moderating another great risk management and metrics panel for the third year in a row, at RSA Conference! The panel is a continuation of the great work we did at last year’s RSA Conference, where we had an encore because of the overflow from the first time slot.

The panelists are: Alex Hutton, Jack Jones, David Mortman and Caroline Wong. What a great line-up of experts to have. Read More

I am excited to be speaking with Jason Clark (CISO/Accuvant) at RSA Conference next week. Our talk is titled, “Castles in the Cloud: Data Protection in the Consumer Age”. You can listen to our podcast here: http://t.co/FEpxu3RqI0.

Join us at 10:40AM on Wednesday, February 26 at RSA Conference! Read More

I have a webinar on Thursday, February 13 at 1PM EST on the topic of Insider Threat. The webinar is with Bob West, CSO at IntelligentID, and is sponsored by Luxoft.

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