Executive Perspective

The Boardroom Brief.

Straight talk on cybersecurity, leadership, and the AI reshaping both — from two decades of running the programs, not just talking about them.

Career

The Security Hire You Actually Need Isn’t Technical

When a security team asks me to help them hire, they almost always hand me a job description that is a list of tools. Five years…
Oct 20, 2026·3 min readRead
Security Operations

MTTR Is Lying to You

Mean time to resolve is the metric every security operations deck leads with, and it is quietly one of the most misleading numbers we report. Not…
Oct 16, 2026·2 min readRead
Incident Response

Tabletop Exercises Fail Because You Script the Ending

Most tabletop exercises are theater with a script everyone has already read. The scenario is announced weeks ahead. The right people clear their calendars. The injects…
Oct 13, 2026·2 min readRead
AI Security

Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection. Treat It Like It.

Every few years our industry meets a vulnerability class it treats as unprecedented, panics, and slowly realizes it has seen the shape before. Prompt injection is…
Oct 9, 2026·3 min readRead
Third-Party Risk

Your Vendor Questionnaire Is Security Theater

I have filled out hundreds of vendor security questionnaires, and I have sent out hundreds more. I can tell you with confidence that the process, as…
Oct 6, 2026·2 min readRead
Identity & Access

Least Privilege Is a Verb, Not a Project

“We implemented least privilege” is one of those sentences that sounds like an achievement and is almost always a lie — not a deliberate one, but…
Oct 2, 2026·2 min readRead
Risk & Metrics

The Risk Register Is Where Good Intentions Go to Die

Every security program I have inherited comes with one: a spreadsheet, dozens of rows, colour-coded, an “owner” column, a “target date” column mostly populated with dates…
Sep 29, 2026·3 min readRead
AI Security

Your AI Policy Is a Liability If Nobody Reads It

Somewhere in your company right now, someone is pasting a customer contract into a consumer chatbot to summarize it. Someone in finance is asking a public…
Sep 25, 2026·3 min readRead