Roger Halbheer on Security
It is in my opinion a controversial discussion: Do you allow the use of USB sticks in a corporate environment and if yes, how? Obviously, today there are a lot of other means to exchange information but the USB stick still seems to be important for users. To have a presentation for an event on…
I have seen different talks by Simon Sinek and I have to admit, I really like him. I just recently found a TED Talk by him on leadership. He had a few really remarkable quotes on leadership: In military, they give medals to people who sacrifice themselves so others may gain. In business, we give…
Well, another one: CIO or C-Suite: To Whom Should the CISO Report?
At least the security community seems to agree…
I am in this business for almost two decades, which is frightening by itself. On the other hand, it is absolutely fascinating, how the security industry and especially the role of the CSO changed. I do not want to go into long stories of security itself but look at it: Initially it was all about…
A lot of people just throw away their boarding pass after a flight. I mean, what information do you find on it? Name, seat, date and flight. So what? You can find this information for a lot of people on social media anyway, right? Well, not really. There is other information on it as well…
We always talk about it, right? Security is a top management responsibility but who is really taking this responsibility? Typically the CSO gets under pressure, once incidents happen. Well, Marissa Mayer – the CEO of Yahoo – does, now: Yahoo CEO Loses Bonus Over Security Lapses And with GDPR just around the corner with fines…
One of the discussions I have with a lot of customers is around managed security services. Especially themes like Security Operation Centers seem to be fairly emotional as quite some customers want to build and run one themselves (and yes, I know the challenges around regulation). One of the points I often make is the…
First of all I have to apologize: I had quite some technical issues with my blog and therefore had some time between now and the last post…. Today I would like to tap your brains: It is close to Christmas and therefore a typical time to hand your wish list to Santa (in our case…
Actually the article I was looking at was called: The 4 Biggest Mistakes Businesses Make Trying To Secure Endpoints. However, a major part – in my opinion – is not only true for the endpoint but for security in companies as such: Underestimating Human Error: Well it starts with the administrator who is taking wrong…
Unfortunately, we do not see too many women in security – even though there are huge opportunities irrespective of the gender. Over the years, I had the pleasure to work with great women in this business. We will run an event on Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 6.30pm at the Accenture Office in Zurich with…
I read this article (Surviving an Insecure Cyber Workforce) this morning about “the user” (and was once more disappointed – initially. They talk about the importance of awareness, the technology to make sure that the user does not access anything outside their business needs and only well audited etc. and at the very, very end…
No, they are still not coming from me but this article is actually really interesting: Top 15 security predictions for 2016. A few of them are remarkable: At your criminal service (Kaspersky/Seculert) The profitability of cyber-attacks means sophisticated criminal gangs with modern organizational models and tools will replace common cyber criminals as the primary threat.…
I just got informed today, that I have been elected as a full member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences. The vision of the SATW is: SATW is recognized as the principal organisation for the communication of independent, objective and comprehensive information about technology – as a basis for the forming of well-founded opinions…
Back when I was working at Microsoft I was joking that the company was been run on Mail and Spreadsheets. I guess I was not THAT wrong and I guess a lot of companies are the same. Key data still resides in any kind of SAP (or the like) installation and then the data is…
When you do risk management, one of the key questions is always, how a possible incident impacts the trust and then the customer base. Do you really lose customers when incidents happen? Well, the VW group learns this the hard way currently but how does online trust really impact the business? Ponemon published an interesting…
When I look at the recent events and data exfiltration cases, it really looks like we are at the losing end of a battle. It seems to be fairly simple to compromise a network and exfiltrate data nowadays. Now you may claim that you deployed all kinds of cool technology like hardened clients, data loss…
As criminals get access to better technology and as the underground markets get more active, it is not surprising that targeted attacks become more mainstream. This is something we have seen over the last 6-8 months as well as extortion threats grew in parallel. There is another trend I see talking to other organizations: Midsize…
Just read this post by Martijn Grooten ‘Why I fell victim to a LinkedIn scam – and why I would do so again tomorrow’. It is basically about when you accept connection requests on LinkedIn, Xing, Facebook etc. I agree with Martjin that I treat stuff I write on these platforms as public but still,…
In my last blog post I claimed that I have not seen a good security metrics system working so far and asked whether it is a failure. On different channels I got some reactions, which I would like to share here. One claim is that – as risk management is at the heart of security…
