Yada, yada, yada…AI…big data…security tools…ever increasing threats…AI for good and evil…keeping ahead of the bad guys…yada, yada, yada. That’s a pretty good summary of the security “news” I get in my inbox most days, but on this particular day, I was told that “advanced, AI-based security tools are the only way to plan your defense […]
Getting past the possibility (or why threat-based security will get you nowhere)
Yesterday, I was re-reading the FAIR book, Measuring and Managing Information Risk: A FAIR Approach, and something jumped out at me that I’d forgotten the first time I’d read it. The notion of getting hooked on the possibility of an event. Of course, the FAIR book poo-poos all over the qualitative risk assessment – and, […]
Boys, wolves and Chicken Little
Folktales and fables are ways to make sure we learn life’s essential lessons both easily and at an early age. And two of the ones that I think are most relevant to what we do as security professionals are The Boy Who Cried Wolf and Chicken Little. Quick refreshers might be in order, so here […]