Risk Management

December 23, 2014

SECURITY

Issues and Dilemmas in Information Security Practices

5 min read

Editor’s note: In A Circular Problem in Current Information Security Principles, we highlighted one of the challenges in our knowledge domain that contributes to the ineffectiveness of today’s information security practices. In this third installment, we review the issues and dilemmas that are common in our practice environment. One of the challenges information security management teams […]

December 16, 2014

SECURITY

A Circular Problem in Current Information Security Principles

5 min read

Editor’s Note: In this second installment of the blog series on more responsive security, we take a closer look at the circular problems associated with four common security principles in managing “weak link” risks in Information Technology organizations. Before discussing what constitutes this responsive approach to security, let us first look at a few of […]

December 10, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Neohapsis

1 min read

Today, businesses are looking at security in a strategic, comprehensive way to protect mission critical processes and assets. There has never been a greater need to understand the impact that...

August 19, 2014

SECURITY

Cisco 2014 Midyear Security Report: Security Services and Risk Management

2 min read

More organizations are starting to view cybersecurity as a strategic risk. They have to—it’s becoming unavoidable. Technology and the business are so intertwined. Regulators are issuing more compliance measures that include information security directives. And all the while, adversaries are relentless in their campaigns to compromise defenses to steal information, money, or otherwise create disruption.

May 7, 2013

MANUFACTURING

Business Agility in the Evolving Workforce

4 min read

Eighty-Five percent of companies with global supply chains experienced at least one supply chain disruption in the previous 12 months.1 Risk is inherently unpredictable. Fortunately, the current workforce is undergoing its own transformation to be able to identify and manage risk on a global basis. For more than 35 years I have worked with companies […]