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Podcast: Better Ways to Pitch & Win Cybersecurity Budget
Check out this podcast with FTSE 250 CISO Lee Whatford and Cyberseconomics’ Founder and CEO as they discuss how Lee used Cyberseconomics HQBE SaaS...
Podcast: A Better Picture of Security & Risk for the C-Suite and Board
Check out this podcast with FTSE 250 CISO Lee Whatford and Cyberseconomics' Founder and CEO discuss presenting a better picture of security and risk...
Podcast: An intro to better CISO communications with the C-Suite and Board
Check out CISO Lee Whatford - in this first of four short podcasts - as he introduces the Board level challenges he faced at a FTSE 250 and how he...
SC Magazine: Unify SecOps, frameworks, and simulations to protect your crown jewels
Cyberseconomics' founder and CEO Douglas Ferguson is featured on SC Magazine discussing "Unify SecOps, frameworks, and simulations to protect your...
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
Cyberseconomics' founder and CTO Douglas Ferguson is featured on Dark Reading discussing "Framing the Security Story: The Simplest Threats Are the...
Security Boulevard: Top 5 Tactical Steps for a New CISO
Cyberseconomics' 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
Cyberseconomics' founder and CTO Douglas Ferguson is featured on Security Boulevard discussing "Top 5 First Strategic Steps for a New CISO" Read the...
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 Cyberseconomics, we often point out that “evidence of security is not proof of...
SC Magazine: Is the CISO a second-class executive?
Cyberseconomics' founder and CTO Douglas Ferguson featured in Info SC Magazine discussing "Is the CISO a second-class executive?" Read the full...
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
Cyberseconomics' founder and CEO, Douglas Ferguson's article in Dark Reading discusses the variables that need to be introduced to quantify...
Getting Control of Security Controls
Cyberseconomics' founder and CTO Douglas Ferguson featured in Info Security Magazine discussing "Getting Control of Security Controls" Read the full...
Cyberseconomics’ 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...