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August 23, 2019

What’s really keeping you from making credible strategic security plans?

A couple of things in my inbox interesting yesterday. First there was this article talking about the challenges of building credibility with the business as a CISO. Their list of the top issues in this area were: the ability to get initial buy-in from fellow executives on security strategies and initiatives and how they support […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, CISO, Credibility, Security Policy, Stakeholder Engagement, Trust

August 22, 2019

Stomping on the bridge of the cybersecurity trolls

Yesterday was a very exciting day on twitter for yours unruly. My “Speaking CEO” email from a few days back got some very interesting responses, not to mention some personal attacks and accusations of running a pyramid scheme because of the way the subscription page for the Security Sanity™ newsletter was written. A twello going […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, CEO, Customer Trust, Stakeholder Credibility, Trolls

August 21, 2019

The 3 Little Kittens of effective security stakeholder interviewing

My daughter is 2-ish, and she loves to sing. In fact she and her brother both spend a lot of the time, walking around, or riding in the car, or just sitting, singing away with whatever song comes into their heads. It’s pretty cool (and they’re great singers). My daughter’s current favorites are “Rain, Rain, […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Baseline Perspectives, Customer Trust, Stakeholder Credibility

August 20, 2019

“The business” doesn’t care about cybersecurity

I recently had a conversation with someone who was lamenting about how difficult it was to connect and to communicate with “the business”—you know, the “everyone who isn’t in IT or Security” part of the organization… …that same organization you’re busting your backside every day to protect and keep safe. Yeah, those people. Now maybe […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Cybersecurity, Stakeholder Credibility, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Interviewing

August 18, 2019

Speaking CEO

One of the CISOs I follow on Twitter triumphantly tweeted (oohhhh….’lotta ‘literation there): “I think I  managed to speak CEO effectively today.” And I think that’s great. It’s an achievement…and it’s also something that’s a bit like Steven Wright’s photo of Houdini locking his keys in his car—very rare. The question is, what are we […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Stakeholder Credibility, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Interviewing

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