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SC Magazine: Unify SecOps, frameworks, and simulations to protect your crown jewels
Pharos' fouder and CEO Douglas Ferguson is featured on SC Magazine discussing "Unify SecOps, frameworks, and simulations to protect your crown...
Quantifying Security Results to Justify Costs
The CISO job isn't to protect the entire business from all threats for any budget. It's to spell out what level of protection executives can expect...
Is compliance hurting more than it’s helping?
COMPLIANCE IS OFTEN IN THE WAY OF WHAT WE ACTUALLY WANT AND UNDERMINES PROTECTION OF WHAT MATTERS MOST. Why do so many security experts lament when...
Dark Reading: Framing the Security Story: The Simplest Threats Are the Most Dangerous
Pharos' founder and CTO Douglas Ferguson is featured on Dark Reading discussing "Framing the Security Story: The Simplest Threats Are the Most...
Security Boulevard: Top 5 Tactical Steps for a New CISO
Pharos' founder and CTO Douglas Ferguson is featured on Security Boulevard discussing "Top 5 Tactical Steps for a New CISO" Read the full...
Security Boulevard: Top 5 Strategic Steps for a New CISO
Pharos' founder and CTO Douglas Ferguson is featured on Security Boulevard discussing "Top 5 First Strategic Steps for a New CISO" Read the full...
Justifying security costs by quantifying protection results
How many times have we heard a CISO say: “I don’t have enough money for security”. But, what is the right amount of money for security? How is it...
Why evidence of security is not proof of protection
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SECURITY AND PROTECTION? At Pharos, we often point out that “evidence of security is not proof of protection”. What...
SC Magazine: Is the CISO a second-class executive?
Our founder and CTO Douglas Ferguson featured in Info SC Magazine discussing "Is the CISO a second-class executive?" Read the full article...
6 Questions every CISO must answer
THE PROTECTION PROBLEM SPACE VS. THE SECURITY PROBLEM SPACE When a corporate Board invests in security, they expect results. Usually, this means,...
Success Enablers or Silent Killers? Article in Dark Reading
Douglas Ferguson's article in Dark Reading discusses the variables that need to be introduced to quantify protection expectations, provide the...
Getting Control of Security Controls
Our founder and CTO Douglas Ferguson featured in Info Security Magazine discussing "Getting Control of Security Controls" Read the full article...
Pharos founder Douglas Ferguson’s article for CyberScoop on new ways to establish cyber risk appetite with your Board.
The best thing company boards can do to manage cybersecurity risk is to approach it like any other business risk. To be effective, there must be a...
Pharos and Indelible Partner to Deliver Integrated Software and Services for Security Teams
Pharos Inc., a SaaS provider that helps manage the business and economics of cybersecurity, today announced a partnership with Indelible, LLC, a leading strategic cybersecurity consultancy, to offer clients in the U.S. and Canada a unique combination of software and consulting services designed to strengthen and optimize cybersecurity operations.
Pharos Security helps CISOs show the business side of security
Security is a board-level issue for many enterprises, especially in regulated and consumer-oriented industries. Pharos Security's platform arms...
Douglas Ferguson’s 2020 Predictions for VM Blog: Bridging the gap to the Board
In 2020:
Investment in cyber security will continue to increase, but security will continue to struggle to show a strong return.
Many CISOs believe winning more budget is there greatest need, the much greater problem is spending budget and not being able to demonstrate reasonable return. That’s the real killer.