Posts by Dave Tyson

If we can say nothing else about this crisis, it has been a paradigm shifting moment for most of us. Just about everything we thought we knew about what “normal” life is, has been disrupted and tested for strength. In many cases we have embraced the be…

The news for security from the 2020 World Economic Forum Risks Report is really a simple as it gets, the 4th industrial revolution (4IR) is upon us, and the opportunities and benefits for the world are amazing and here to stay. The report indicates tha…

Zoom, and products like it, are fantastic tools, and any digital tools like these is an ecosystem unto itself, and with the right rules and governance, the risk can be managed. Read this post to better understand how to managed that risk.

In any crisis, there are actions that will be managed through your crisis management plan, including crisis communications. The current global crisis has tested many organizations’ plans and no doubt has created many lessons learned on those plans’ effectiveness.

That is the question business leaders are asking themselves across the world in light of the new version of China’s Multi-Level Protection Scheme law, known as MLPS 2.0, another Chinese cybersecurity regulation that comes into effect December 1, 2019.…

The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO in many organizations) is on the front lines of two of the largest battle fronts in business today: business brand and customer data. And success or failure on those fronts is increasingly determined by the security of…

For the past millennia or so, the traditional approach to securing assets has been the utilization of a castle mentality. Make assets hard enough to get to, with many layers of protection, and you will be safe. In reality this is very difficult to achi…

“Cyber Security 1.0” was vulnerability based, and has what I would argue limited and decreasing levels of success as public breaches continue at a record pace even though IT and IT security spending continues to be an increasing leadership and spending…

At least according to Microsoft a few years ago, and if that’s true then the earth will be led by a new breed of technology leader…I call them the “Alpha Geek”. In a room full of Alpha Males or Females you can quickly find him or her by listening caref…

One of the greatest challenges for a CISO is helping traditional security professionals believe they can learn information security fundamentals without great pain. It is not only beneficial for the company and the relationships between security depart…

I don’t want this to sound like a rant, but after four years in the Silicon Valley being bombarded by “sales professionals” and “account executives” of technology firms, I must say I find them generally to be wanting… Don’t get me wrong, I have met a…

When I started to read about the concept of Big Data, I was at first a little skeptical about the drivers, so I thought I would do some research. Wikipedia definition: Big data[1] are datasets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with us…