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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
Broadening What We Call AppSec - Christien Rioux - ASW Vault
The Nine Cybersecurity Habits - George Finney - BSW Vault
Simplify Your Audit Process, News, BlackHat Interviews - Tomer Bar, Raghu Nandakumara, Erik Huckle - ESW #330
AI cars, Sandstorm, BGP, Earth Estries, DOE, Aria, Aaran Leyland and More - SWN #323
Incident Response: Clouds, SMBs, & More! - Amanda Berlin - PSW #797
How Can Security Be Smart About Using AI? - Jeff Pollard - ASW #253
Mystery, Qakbot, Crates.io, VDP, NetScaler, Entra ID, SynthID, FreeBSD, Jason Wood - SWN #322
The Art & Science of Metawar - Winn Schwartau - BSW #318
Tackling the Perennial Problem of Device Management, News, BlackHat Interviews - Jason Meller - ESW #329
Openfire, Firepower, Barracuda, CosmicBeetle, Encryption, Aaran Leyland, & More - SWN #321
Managing Bug Bounty Programs At Scale - Dr. Jared DeMott - PSW #796
Security in a Cloud Native World & Mobile App Attacks - ASW #252
Cold Fusion, EncroChat, Apple Device Spoofing, Tesla Breach, Jason Wood & More - SWN #320
Security Money & BlackHat Interviews - BSW #317
News and Interviews from BlackHat 2023 - ESW #328
Dilithium, Africa, Suse, Citrix, QR, AI, & More News - SWN #319
Defending Public Infrastructure While At War - Antranig Vartanian - PSW #795
DEFCON, ScrutisWeb, DoubleDrive, GitHub, npms, AI Cheating, More news, and Jason Wood - SWN #318
CISO in Crisis, but Will the SEC Regulations Make a Difference and New NIST CSF Draft - BSW #316
Pointers and Perils for Presentations - Josh Goldberg - ASW #251
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