Expert Instinct – BSW #183
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1. SWVHSC: How Security Spending Overlooks the Biggest Risk of All – Matt Ashburn – BSW #183
Global spending on cyber security totals over $100 billion per year, with no upper limit in sight as adversaries remain successful at compromising even well-resourced organizations. Why do adversaries remain successful despite advances in security technologies and risk frameworks? As it turns out, an often-overlooked architecture from 30 years ago is a common thread among many successful attacks. By re-thinking the ubiquitous web browser and its connection to the internet, CIOs and CISOs can nearly eliminate their internet risk surface, provide users the tools and access they need, and free up incident responders to focus on more advanced threats.
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Former CIA Cyber Security Officer, and National Security CISO at the White House – National Security Engagement Lead, Authentic8 Engagement Lead, focusing on engagement with national security customers. Prior to Authentic8, Matt served as a CIA officer focusing on cyber issues, including a detail serving on the National Security Council as the Chief Information Security Officer and Special Advisor to the National Security Advisor, leading technical expertise, risk reduction strategies, and policy for national security systems.
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2. SWVHSC: “The Failure of Risk Management” – Doug Hubbard – BSW #183
A ground shaking exposé on the failure of popular cyber risk management methods. This book is the first of a series of spinoffs from Douglas Hubbard’s successful first book, How To Measure Anything: Finding the Value of “Intangibles” in Business.
Learn more on how to quantify risk in terms of dollars and cents in order to build better "business impact" decision makers, visit: https://hubbardresearch.com/
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Mr. Hubbard is the inventor of the powerful Applied Information Economics (AIE) method. His management consulting career started 35 years ago with Coopers & Lybrand, focusing on the application of quantitative methods. The last 25 years he has completed over 200 projects for the application of AIE to solve current business issues in many areas including IT benefits and risks including cybersecurity, engineering risks, market forecasts for pharma and medical devices, environmental policy, mergers & acquisitions, Silicon Valley startups, the likelihood of success of new movies, and military logistics to name a few. His AIE methodology has received critical praise from Gartner, Forrester, and others.
He is the author of the following books (all published by Wiley, between 2007 and 2023):
• How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business (one of the all-time, best-selling books in business math)
• The Failure of Risk Management: Why It’s Broken and How to Fix It
• Pulse: The New Science of Harnessing Internet Buzz to Track Threats and Opportunities
• How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (co-authored with Richard Seiersen)
His books have sold over 180,000 copies in eight languages and are used as textbooks in dozens of university courses including the graduate level. How To Measure Anything has been on the required reading list for the Society of Actuaries exam prep. In addition to his books, Mr. Hubbard is published in the prestigious science journal Nature as well as publications as varied as The American Statistician, CIO Magazine, IBM Journal of Research & Development, Information Week, Architecture Boston, OR/MS Today and Analytics Magazine.
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