by Stuart Clark | Dec 29, 2016 | BCP, CISO, Latest, Security Leadership
I woke up this morning thinking about the increasing impact that any disruption between us and the Internet has in our daily personal and professional lives. I love the security profession but sometimes it drives your brain to an offroad or two (or more) that many...
by Stuart Clark | Nov 29, 2016 | AWS, Latest
Amazon will not tell you this but they think AWS security and compliance practices are way better than yours. And they would be spot on. How would I know? I’ve been working with service providers running on AWS since 2010. I helped a fintech startup born on AWS...
by Stuart Clark | Oct 31, 2016 | CISO, Latest
I’ve been a Cloud CISO for a little more than 5 years now. One consequence is that enterprise endpoint security products and I have rarely passed paths. Agile orgs running Linux / OSX with users perpetually outside the perimeter is not easily solved for with legacy...
by Stuart Clark | Apr 11, 2016 | CISO, Latest, Security Leadership
Last week I had the opportunity to attend ISC West billed at the “largest security industry trade show in the U.S.” Held annually at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas the show features over 1000 exhibitors and is attended by over 28000 security professionals. Make no...
by Stuart Clark | Apr 4, 2016 | CISO, Latest, Security Leadership
Part 1 introduced the concept of transforming a paper “security contact” into a security liaison for your organization. My experience working with organizations is that while most have a security contact attached to an asset or functional area...
by Stuart Clark | Dec 6, 2015 | Latest, Security Leadership
I tweeted the other day in response to a blog post I read which seems to be an upward trend of information intended to help CISO’s disseminate information to their board of directors. Good actionable information for sure but I feel the need to push the envelope...