Category: Quantification
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Many organizations mistakenly believe they need extensive data and complex systems for Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ). This article advocates for early adoption of quantitative risk measurement, starting small and evolving over time. By abandoning outdated qualitative ratings, organizations can access valuable insights, enhance decision-making, and achieve greater resilience in their risk programs from the outset.
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In this @ISACA newsletter column, I talk about some real-world perspectives I encountered where one organization was told they shouldn’t quantify cyber risk.
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I wrote this piece as an analysis of what Marsh is experiencing in the marketplace. I wanted to have a cyber risk analyst’s take on the same data and to see where we could learn from their analysis and apply that in our practice. One edit, it looks like I made a typo. The line…
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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 video…
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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 and…
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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 friend…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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