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Published on 06.05.2018

How Security Controls Can Improve Your Cybersecurity Posture

By Sean Atkinson, Chief Information Security Officer, CIS® Security is a journey, not a destination. It is important to understand that as securi...

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Published on 05.29.2018

Keep Your Employees Interested in Cybersecurity Awareness Training with these Tips

By Sean Atkinson, Chief Information Security Officer As organizations work to make internal company processes and personnel more secure it’s wort...

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Published on 05.17.2018

Your GDPR Questions Answered

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) aims primarily to give control back to EU citizens and residents over their personal data while sta...

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Published on 05.15.2018

The Fox and the Hedgehog: Strategic Cybersecurity Response Planning

Let’s build on the harmonized combination of an organization’s risk manager and control framework described in my last blog post. Risk managers c...

CIS Controls

Published on 05.09.2018

Creating Event Trees to Help Measure Control Effectiveness

By Sean Atkinson, Chief Information Security Officer The transformation of a fault tree In an earlier blog post, I described using fault trees as...

CIS Controls

Published on 05.03.2018

GDPR – Are you ready?

New regulations like GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) can always be a bit intimidating – but they don’t have to be! If your organization...

CIS Benchmarks

Published on 05.01.2018

Fault Trees and Risk Forests

By Sean Atkinson, Chief Information Security Officer Risk management and the elicitation of scenarios Over the past few blog posts I have discuss...

CIS Controls

Published on 04.24.2018

Cloud Compliance – How to Stay Secure on an Intangible Infrastructure

By Sean Atkinson, Chief Information Security Officer “If it is not my device, how do I control it?” Security in the cloud can be a contentious to...

CIS Controls

Published on 04.16.2018

GDPR – A New Regulation

By Sean Atkinson, Chief Information Security Officer In previous blogs, we deemed 2018 the “year of data privacy.” With privacy in mind, let’s ex...

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Published on 04.10.2018

Breaking the Divide Between Governance and Operational Cybersecurity

By Sean Atkinson, Chief Information Security Officer Governance in cybersecurity Governance is an important topic in cybersecurity, as it describ...

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