Sep 11, 2014 | Business of Security, Industry Analysis, Opinion, PCI, Security Leadership, Security Management
Every week it seems a new breach is announced with a big load of credit cards or healthcare data popping up on the various criminal exchanges. This erodes confidence in retailers and healthcare providers everywhere, as well as the integrity of the PCI DSS. Consumers...
Sep 9, 2014 | Security Leadership, Security Management
What makes a successful IT security leader? Intelligence, experience, integrity? With 20 years of experience working with security people, I’ve had the fortune to see both highly successful security programs as well as highly dysfunctional ones. The...
Aug 12, 2014 | Breaches, Security Leadership, Security Management
There has been a lot of hiring and firing within Target’s executive leadership after their publicly acknowledged data breach earlier this year. The CEO and CIO officially resigned, though were likely pressured to leave their positions as damage control all the bad...
Jun 6, 2013 | Security Leadership
“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.” This was Spock’s pragmatic wisdom from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, which was a inspirational movie for me when I was 12. Now 30 years later, it is still a good quote for security leaders to...
