If you’re new to cyber security, at some point in your future, you will be required to quantify why you should purchase the platform(s) you want to purchase, and using fear of breach as a motivating factor will only get you so far. But, what should your message to purchase…

Zero-Trust is a concept Information Security leans into, empowering business partners to deliver imperatives within a seamless, secure, identity-centric method. …

Dynamically Define, Prioritize, and Strategize While Empowering Associates To Secure The Business — Overview One of the first deliverables needed before securing the business is implementing a high-level security design framework that connects the strategy and funding to the work and technology. A framework is essential as it contains, maintains, and subsequently influences the processes utilized to secure the business. The resulting requirements driven…

It was a gray day, the morning sun hidden by clouds. The much-needed rain was here. Everything green awaited nourishment — the opportunity to capture the sky’s nectar for dry hours and dry days to come. I had just finished enjoying my morning coffee and walked out the door and…

Opportunities Within The Winds Of Change — Change is inevitable. Every creature, every life-form present on Earth, from the smallest cell to the largest tree, is always evolving, ever-expanding its consciousness in a dualistic dance of being. What’s occurring within my experience, within my environment? Should I change? Is it safe? Am I warm? Am I satiated…

Understanding An Interchangeable SIEM Architecture — At its core, a SIEM (Security Incident & Event Management) ingests, filters, normalizes and alerts upon events provided by downstream systems. Some SIEM vendors also venture into the event collection and aggregation arena to provide a richer view of event data from specific resources like Windows or Linux servers. The…

Defining and Delivering A Successful Zero-Trust Initiative — Zero-Trust is how Information Security empowers the business to deliver its imperatives by seamlessly enabling the use of nearly any service from anywhere utilizing identity-centric security. What does key core capabilities does this statement include? Anything identity-based control or capability that you choose to include. There isn’t a wrong answer…

I’ve Never Regretted Being Compassionate — Neiman sat down at the far end of the conference table nearly six feet away and even with this distance between us, he still felt intimidating. …

The Power Of A Human Connection — This Series This article is part of a series called Connected Leadership. It revolves around the observations or lessons a father wrote about in his memoir, You Are Held In Love. The specific lessons addressed in this article are: If you want to change your life, change your language — This lesson…