My latest @ISACA post talks about how there is a lack of parallelism in the way that organizations apply Risk Treatment. In short, the lower in the organization you are the less real options that you have.
You can read the article here
WEF – Principles of Board Governance for Cyber Risk
A new whitepaper was released this week from the World Economic Forum. I was very honored to be a part of the group that authored this (you can see my contributions in section 2.2 – Understand the economic drivers and impact of cyber risk).
The paper is free to download here.
CRQ, Zero Trust, NACD, and Risk Treatment Options
Here is a mega update on several items I’ve been working on lately.
First, I did a podcast with ThreatConnect talking about CRQ. We did a bit of a retrospective on the FAIR book as well which was nice.
Next is a piece I wrote for ISACA about how to not over-respond to current work from home trends in this article about Zero Trust
I also wrote a piece for the NACD about how to apply cyber scenario management to better your risk management practices.
Finally I wrote this article, also for ISACA, about advanced applications of the risk treatment options and how they are not all the same.
How to Report Cyber Risk to the Board
I’m giving a webinar tomorrow based on the whitepaper I authored for ISACA: Reporting Cybersecurity Risk to the Board of Directors. It’s a free download. I cover Board reporting from the technologists perspective, covering the role of the Board and how to communicate to them in a way they understand. You can register for the webinar here
Lastly, I wrote another piece for ISACA on Zero Trust that people are finding interesting. You can check it our here
ISSA Distinguished Fellow
Two weeks ago I was named a Distinguished Fellow of the ISSA. It’s really a great honor for me as I really didn’t think I was qualified. Thanks to everyone who made this possible, including Clarke Cummings for getting me involved in the ISSA to begin with and to Joel Weise for helping with my application.
Cyentia Xtreme
In case you missed it, the Cyentia Institute published the IRIS2020 Xtreme report. I was very happy to have written the conclusions for this report. In it, I speak about how the data in the report can be useful for Board Directors. You can read the full report here.
Dark Reading quoted me in their coverage here as did Duo Security here.
Pandemic Lessons and Record Count
I was asked to write a piece for ISACA about cyber risk in the Pandemic. I used some popular memes as a bouncing off point to talk about how to manage risk in these crazy times. You can read this here.
I also had my article about why using record counts as your risk appetite is a bad idea. You can read this here.
Lastly, there was some more press on the (ISC)2 Award I won:
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/hacker-princess-wins-diversity/
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/08/17/2020-isc2-global-achievement-awards/
ISC2 Global Award
I’m pleased to announce that I have been honored with an ISC2 Global Award in the Senior Professional Award category for the work I’ve done integrating FAIR into the NIST CSF framework. Many thanks to the FAIR Institute for their support and for ISC2 for these awards programs.
Positive Risk, ISACA Journal, and more NIST
ISACA asked me to write a short piece on my Journal article about risk communication. They published that here.
I also wrote a blog post for the @ISACA newsletter about the trouble with positive risk.
Lastly, NIST released an update to their ERM-Cyber integration standard and my friends at the FAIR Institute asked me to comment on it, so I wrote a short piece here.
Cyber Risk Frameworks, MITRE ATT&CK, and Risk Communication in the ISACA Journal
Welcome to your April-May Cyber Risk Update!
- I was asked to write a piece about how umbrella frameworks like NIST can be incomplete without detailed implementation guidance, but also how such detailed methodologies like CVSS were also lacking. The result was this piece I wrote for the FAIR Institute.
- I was also pleasantly surprised to discover that NIST released an IR draft that referenced FAIR directly as a way to tie together cyber risk and enterprise risk. You can read my hot take on this here and read the standard here.
- I was very honored to be able to speak at the Inaugural Volatility and Risk Institute Conference hosted by NYU Stern, where I was interview by the inestimable Phil Venables. He write his thoughts about this here and you can watch the interview here, where you can see my amazing Zoom background (h/t to Digital Blasphemy where I’ve been a lifetime member since the late 90s)
- Here is a piece I wrote for Dark Reading where I describe how to integrate MITRE ATT&CK into your risk modeling
- Lastly my article on Risk Communication was published in this month’s ISACA Journal, available here. It was published as a feature article in their Human Element of Risk issue.
