I had the pleasure of doing a live session on David Spark and Spark Media’s CISO Series with Nick Esponosa. Things got wacky but we also had a good time discussing with CRQ is and how it can help companies make better decisions. You can check out the highlights reel here and the full videoContinue reading “Featured on CISO Series – Hacking Cyber Risk Quantification”
Author Archives: Jack Freund
More on Zero Trust
I was interviewed by ISTARI on Zero Trust a little while ago. You can check out the short podcast here: I was also quoted in an article on Zero Trust here:
Cyber Resilience & Board Communication Interview
My piece on Cyber Resilience was recently published by ISACA. Note that their style guide requires that everything with cyber in it be a compound word which makes it read weird. I had a good laugh with them about this. They also interviewed me for ISACA TV on communicating cyber risk to the board andContinue reading “Cyber Resilience & Board Communication Interview”
Open Group Security Forum
The Open Group recently highlighted me in the Individual Contributor Spotlight. I’ve been working with the Open Forum in various capacities since 2012 with the introduction of the Open FAIR certification. Met lots of great people and got to give back. Here’s what they wrote: The Security Forum thanks Jack for his foundational role inContinue reading “Open Group Security Forum”
ISACA CRQ Whitepaper, a Webinar, and More CRQ
A whitepaper I recently wrote for ISACA was published. You can access it here. In this paper I wanted to write about how cyber risk quantification worked broadly, not just in a FAIR context. I hope it gives you a good primer to this topic. I’m also doing an ISACA webinar with my good friendContinue reading “ISACA CRQ Whitepaper, a Webinar, and More CRQ”
RSAC 2021 Presentation – Building a Global Cyber Rating
Join Derek Vadala and I tomorrow at 12:45PM PDT as we talk about building a Global Cyber Rating at RSA Conference 2021 https://www.rsaconference.com/Library/presentation/USA/2021/building-a-global-cyber-rating-how-to-objectively-rate-cyber-capabilities
Risk Treatment
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 workContinue reading “CRQ, Zero Trust, NACD, and Risk Treatment Options”
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 theContinue reading “How to Report Cyber Risk to the Board”
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