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.

OT & IoT Security

Securing Things That Can Crush You: Notes From the Factory Floor

For most of my career, the worst case for a breach was data — records stolen, systems down, a bad week and a hard quarter. Then…
May 16, 2026·6 min readRead
Third-Party Risk

Your Biggest Risk Is Someone Else’s Company

Here’s an uncomfortable truth I’ve had to explain in a lot of boardrooms: some of your most dangerous risk isn’t inside your company at all. It’s…
Apr 9, 2026·6 min readRead
Risk & Metrics

Stop Reporting Vulnerabilities. Start Reporting Risk.

Somewhere in your company right now there’s a dashboard showing fourteen thousand open vulnerabilities, and it is actively making you less safe. Not because the number…
Mar 19, 2026·6 min readRead
Cloud Security

What Securing Containers at a Bank Taught Me

I spent a stretch inside one of the largest banks in the country, and the problem sitting on my desk was deceptively boring: make sure thousands…
Mar 4, 2026·6 min readRead
Compliance

SOC 2 Won’t Make You Secure. You Still Need It.

I’ve led a SOC 2 Type II certification from a blank page. I’ve also been called in to clean up after companies that had a spotless…
Feb 11, 2026·6 min readRead
Leadership

How to Talk to the Board Without Putting Them to Sleep

The first time I briefed a board of directors on security, I made every mistake at once. I put a threat-actor kill chain on a slide.…
Jan 22, 2026·8 min readRead