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 myContinue reading “ISSA Distinguished Fellow”
Author Archives: Jack Freund
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 theirContinue reading “Cyentia Xtreme”
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 appetiteContinue reading “Pandemic Lessons and Record Count”
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 toContinue reading “Positive Risk, ISACA Journal, and more NIST”
Cyber Risk Frameworks, MITRE ATT&CK, and Risk Communication in the ISACA Journal
Interviewed by Phil Venables, published in the ISACA Journal and Dark Reading, and more thoughts on NIST and CVSS
85.7% COVID-19 Free March Update!
RSA Roundup Updates on the Monday all-day FAIR session I did with Jack Jones, Chad Weinman, and Rachel Slabotsky, as well as my Thursday session on maturing your risk management practice. RSAC 2020 Report – Big Turnout for 2 FAIR Seminars, Breakfast Advice on Starting a FAIR Program from Jack Jones and Fannie Mae, AscenaContinue reading “85.7% COVID-19 Free March Update!”
Feb Update! Davos, NIST, Cloud Smart, and Risk Mgmt Maturity
NIST webinar, app rationalization for Federal Cloud Smart policy, Risk Mgmt Maturity report, and Davos
Speaking at the Cyber Future Dialogue in Davos during the World Economic Forum (WEF)
I’m very excited to announce that I will be speaking at the Cyber Future Dialogue in two weeks in Davos, Switzerland during the World Economic Forum. This is going to be an amazing opportunity to converse with distinguished leadership from around the world on the necessity of and practical means to operationalize cyber risk quantificationContinue reading “Speaking at the Cyber Future Dialogue in Davos during the World Economic Forum (WEF)”
Welcome to 2020! Cyber Risk Prospectuses and a “Manifesto”
Welcome to 2020! I kept busy last month, even with the holidays. Here are some updates: I wrote a piece for ISACA about how much spending is being done in aggregate for cyber security and how we need to rationalize the controls we are spending on. The FAIR Institute called this my manifesto here :-)Continue reading “Welcome to 2020! Cyber Risk Prospectuses and a “Manifesto””
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