November 8, 2015 The fatal flaw in IT Risk management Is interviewing is a much better method that self-certifications and a checklist, if time and resources allow. Two points: In the ISO-27001 forum, my…
April 21, 2014 What Applicants Should Ask When Interviewing For An InfoSecurity Position http://www.informationsecuritybuzz.com/applicants-ask-interviewing-information-security-role/ Well what would you ask? These seem to be the kind of questions that might be asked by someone with a strong technical…
May 30, 2013 Confusion over Physical Assets, Information Assets in ISO-27000 I often explain that Information Security focuses on Information Assets. Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads,…
May 14, 2013 Does ISO 27001 compliance need a data leakage prevention policy? On one of the ISO-27000 lists I subscribe to I commented that one should have a policy to determine the need for and the…
June 29, 2012 Control objectives – Why they are important http://blog.iso27001standard.com/2012/04/10/iso-27001-control-objectives-why-are-they-important/ Let us leave aside the poor blog layout, Dejan’s picture ‘above the fold’ taking up to much screen real estate. In actuality he’s…
March 23, 2012 Social Engineering and sufficency of awareness training Someone asked: If you have a good information security awareness amongst the employees then it should not a problem what kind of attempts are…
February 8, 2012 Upside and downside: How I hate Journalists http://compliancesearch.com/compliancex/insider-trading/senate-votes-to-ban-insider-trading-by-its-members/ And this doesn’t actually stop them form making use of ‘insider information’ they just have to declare it within 30 days. No, wait,…
August 24, 2011 The real reasons for documentation – and how much he documentation required and/or needed by ISO-2700x is a perenial source of dispute in the various forums I subscribe to. Of course management has…
August 18, 2011 TV kills! I keep telling everybody that TV is injurious to your (mental) health, but does anyone listen? Why should they? They didn’t when Gerry Mander…
February 24, 2011 Are *YOU* ready to give up yet? Apparently (ISC)2 did this survey … which means they asked the likes of us …. http://www.darkreading.com/security-monitoring/167901086/security/security-management/229219084/under-growing-pressure-security-pros-may-be-ready-to-crack-study-says.html Faced with an attack surface that seems to…
July 14, 2010 IAM – Basics – Policy If there’s one thing that upsets me when I see articles and posting to forums about policy, its mention of a “Password Policy”. I…
March 26, 2010 A Security Policy needs to be abstract not specific Image via Wikipedia There’s much I don’t like about many of the published security policies an the ones I see in use at many…
January 25, 2010 About Social Networking policy Policy development is one of my areas of practice, so when a colleague on a mailing list asked about how to phrase policy to…
October 6, 2009 About creating Corporate IT Security Policies As I’ve said before, you should not ask yourself what policies to write but what you need to control. If you begin with a…
April 28, 2009 Swine Flu Issues – insufficient discrimination The trouble with some people is that they make some deceptively reasonable comments that don’t stand up under critical analysis  With an ailing economy…
April 6, 2007 Make your policy generic, not specific Some of us security types were discussion policy, login notices and the like. Someone commetned on a badly written poicy about the use of…
