Why CISOs should Care About Cloud “Drift”
Why CISOs should Care About Cloud “Drift”
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The Twenty-Year War on Cybercrime
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This is the text of a speech I delivered at the Gartner Group Security and Risk Management Summit in June 2015. I originally wrote th...
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Why CISOs should Care About Cloud “Drift”
Why CISOs should Care About Cloud “Drift”
In security, DevOps, applications, metrics, Sep 25, 2019
SRE Metrics and Security Measurement
Why can’t IT and security get along better? Disciplined technology teams use data and metrics strategically. But security and risk teams think about metrics differently than the rest ...
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Five Things the Last Decade Taught Me About Security Metrics
This is the nominal text of my opening remarks for Metricon X, delivered on March 21, 2019. It has been lightly edited for clarity and a few identities have been slightly disguised. T...
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The Twenty-Year War on Cybercrime
This is the text of a speech I delivered at the Gartner Group Security and Risk Management Summit in June 2015. I originally wrote the speech for Sir Roger Carr, the Chairman of BAE S...
In security, risk, big data, Jun 06, 2015
The DevOps Security Handbook: Building Security In With Chef, Part III
IntroductionThis is the third in a series of occasional posts about security and DevOps. The ultimate goal of this series is to show how to build a reasonably secure Apache web server...
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The DevOps Security Handbook: Building Security In With Chef, Part II
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Building Security In Using Chef
Lately I have been spending a lot of time with a new best friend. This new friend is reliable; he does everything according to plan and always exactly the same way. The results are ex...
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New Web Adventures with Heroku
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