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Matt Coose is the founder and CEO of cybersecurity compliance firm Qmulos, previously the director of Federal Network Security for the National Cyber Security Division of the (DHS).
CISOs carry the ultimate burden and weight of compliance and reporting and are often the last buck. Says Coose, best-of-breed is better described as best-to-bleed-the-budget: it’s a bottom-up, tech-first, reactive approach for acquiring technology as opposed to managing risk. Choose shares his top considerations below for how CISOs can navigate the crowded market of cybersecurity tools when cost is highly scrutinized, but regulations keep growing.
Platforms are what every vendor dreams of being called, but no platform does it all, says Coose.
Coose shares what smart CISOs and mature organizations understand, that others don’t:
• There’s no “buying their way out of security issues or into a better risk posture.” They understand the need to evolve to a top-down, risk-driven, inherently business-aligned, dynamically adaptable, and evidence-based security management strategy.
• That looking at technology choices through the lens of risk controls (and the related data provided by technology that implements those controls) enables credible and transparent strategic tech portfolio management decisions that are immune to vendor preferences or the latest market(ing) fads.
• The need for meaningful security and risk measurement and the difference between leading and lagging indicators.
• The original intent of security and regulatory compliance as a model for proactive and consistent risk management (leading indicator), not just a historical reporting and audit function (lagging indicator).
• That managing risk, compliance, and security as distinct and separate functions is not only wasteful and inefficient, but denies the enterprise the ability to cross-leverage significant people, process, and technology investments
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-814
IP Addresses - SWN Vault
How to Make the World Quantum Safe - Vadim Lyubashevsky - ESW Vault
Hacker Heroes - Mark Loveless - PSW Vault
Encryption - SWN Vault
Leadership Lessons from the First 100 Episodes of CISO Stories - Todd Fitzgerald - BSW Vault
Close the Security Theater: Enter Resilience - Kelly Shortridge - ASW Vault
Building AI BOMs - Helen Oakley - PSW #841
Daleks, AVTECH, Palo Alto, VMWARE, Travel, California AI Dreamin', Aaran Leyland... - SWN #411
What asset management (ITAM) looks like outside cybersecurity - Danny Jenkins, Ed Skoudis, Jeremy Boerger, Maor Bin - ESW #374
MGs, Free Speech, sedexp, Cthulhu, SeaTac, GrimResource, ServiceBridge, Josh Marpet.. - SWN #410
Changing the Course of IoT's Future from Its Insecure Past - Paddy Harrington - ASW #297
The Changing Risk Landscape: CISO Liability - Darren Shou - BSW #362
Faking your own death, Fake Reviews, Solar Winds, Recall, Winux, Kubernetes, and More - SWN #409
The end of the road for some cyber startups & making detection actually work! - Vivek Bhandari, Vivek Ramachandran, Mike Lyborg, Brandon Potter - ESW #373
How do we patch the right things? - Josh Bressers - PSW #840
The Fallout and Lessons Learned from the CrowdStrike Fiasco - Shimon Modi, Jeff Pollard, Allie Mellen, Boaz Barzel - ASW #296
Dangerous books, Microsoft plus, NPD, Solar Winds, Jenkins, and more... - SWN #408
Why Cyber Resilience Matters - Andrew Harding, Theresa Lanowitz - BSW #361
Quantum AI Drones, Ransomhub, Pixel, Mad Liberator, the return of Russ Beauchemin... - SWN #407
Cybersecurity Myths - Eugene Spafford - PSW #839
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