Mar 27, 2014 | Business of Security, Risk Management, Security Leadership, Security Management
“I don’t get it!” said the CEO as he dropped the 300-page report on the conference table. Something was very wrong. It was 2010 and my team had just completed a large, enterprise risk assessment for a financial services company. We followed a traditional assessment...
Oct 27, 2013 | Business of Security, Language of Security, Security Leadership, Security Management
“I told you this would happen!” The board room goes silent as the executive team contemplates the events unfolding before them. There has been a serious data breach and the situation is escalating. Everybody is tense. The security team’s warnings about server...
Aug 18, 2013 | Business of Security, Penetration Testing, Security Analytics, Security Management
The curriculum of business schools are filled with case studies of companies that took short cuts to become competitive and accomplished the exact opposite. For the information security world, there is a similar “penny-wise, pound-foolish” behavior in the notorious...
May 21, 2012 | Business of Security, Human Factors, Language of Security, Security Management
In the ten years Anitian has been working incident response and digital forensic cases, our analysts have observed many ingenious ways to break into systems and applications. However, they rarely encounter an ingenious root cause for the vulnerabilities. After all...
Jan 18, 2012 | Business of Security, Human Factors, Psychology of Security, Security Management
All security is human. I forget where I heard that or read it, but it underlines a simple reality about security. It all boils down to humans and their behavior. Technology, process, compliance, etc. are all tools we have to alter, control, and monitor human behavior....
Jan 10, 2012 | Business of Security
Every year the executives of Anitian hunker down in some remote location and hash out our plans for world domination. Okay, we cater in some sandwiches at a coffee shop in Beaverton and try to figure out how to better serve our customers. I am sure we will get to the...
