CybersecurityFour to five months of interviews, C-suite down, mapping every policy to a named role. The project revealed something no framework document warns you about: the CFO did not know what segregation of duties was, and once he understood it,…
CybersecurityI have to take gamified security tests to consult for companies, and I have rewritten the book on phishing, literally: KnowBe4's Cyberheist, twice, credited alongside Roger A. Grimes. The gap between those two kinds of training is the gap between…
CybersecurityEvery executive who comes to me for a cybersecurity book wants to write a technical book. The book that builds careers is aimed at boards, customers, and the people who approve budgets, with the technical depth as rebar: everywhere, load-bearing,…
CybersecurityA cybersecurity book helps attackers only if you print the one wrong thing, the working exploit. You can write deeply about how attacks unfold and how to defend against them without ever handing over a usable map. The rule is…
CybersecurityI was never a CISO by title; my networking partner and I were both directors who, with a boss who was not security savvy, functioned as a de facto CISO together, setting the rules and getting them approved. The job…
CybersecurityMost security tools are theater. I sat through endless vendor pitches for products with giant dashboards full of blinking widgets that looked impressive and did almost nothing. The attack surface is enormous, phones, laptops, servers, cloud, even charging cables, and…
CybersecurityEvery like, share, and photo you post is data, collected, stored, analyzed, and frequently sold. Most people know that in the abstract and almost no one grasps it in practice. Drawing on 20 years running enterprise computer operations, here is…
CybersecurityThe human layer is the biggest security weakness and the one people are least prepared for, because they do not expect the guy in the uniform, or the friendly caller, to be the attacker. You can harden every server and…
CybersecurityMost social media audits are about looking professional: clean up the photos, polish the profile. That misses the real risk. Your posts, check-ins, and images are a map for anyone who wants to find you. Here is how to audit…
CybersecurityMost ghostwriters come from journalism or creative writing. I come from 33 years inside the technology industry. When your book touches systems architecture, cybersecurity, or data infrastructure, you should not have to translate it for your writer. Here is what…
About RichardAt seventeen, my grandfather handed me his World War II diary and asked me to turn it into a book. He had served on the USS Panay and survived being marched through Manila as a prisoner. That first project became…
CybersecurityTony stole $3,000 from me at 26, and twenty-five years later that con probably saved me thousands more when a Facebook scammer came calling. I thought I understood deception, I had worked in early computer security. Tony taught me otherwise.…
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