The Boardroom Brief.

I want passwords gone as much as anyone. But I’ve watched enough “passwordless by Q3!” initiatives crash into reality to know that killing the password is…

Every glossy security strategy assumes you get to make changes. Real environments aren’t like that. Somewhere in your company is a system that’s ancient, critical, and…

A regulated bank almost never fails a cloud examination because it was missing a control. It fails because nobody could say who owned the control, who…

“Shift left” became a buzzword so fast that people forgot it means something real: catch security problems early, when they’re cheap, instead of at the end,…

Nearly every security team I’ve walked into has the same quiet crisis: the SIEM generates so many alerts that the humans have stopped believing any of…

When people ask how to defend against ransomware, they usually want to talk about detection and next-gen endpoint magic. All useful. But if you want the…

I used to filter security résumés by certifications. CISSP, sure. A wall of acronyms after the name, even better — it felt like a shortcut, a…

Security leaders love to complain they can’t get budget. I did too — until I realized the problem was usually the pitch, not the CFO. Finance…