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Steps in no-man's land

Steps in no-man's land

Some major breaches have seen the light of day lately, and everybody agrees that they will keep coming. I don't believe you will find any security professional respecting himself to tell you that this will stop. The reasons are many, but the most important one is the (lack of) security design. Systems, processes and services have been moving to production without security design for years. And unfortunately in many cases they still do.

In our (security) profession it is becoming common to jump on each other's throat; and the result is the public blaming of the CISO involved - like leaving them alone to take some hard steps in the middle of no man's land.

Building up a SOC - the candidate challenge

Building up a SOC - the candidate challenge

Building a Security Operations Center from scratch is not an easy thing. But since it's not the first time I'm doing it, I am familiar with the challenges. These challenges include the building of the processes in a company-adjusted manner, the selection of the toolset and integrations to match the company's enterprise architecture, network architecture and of course my own security architecture, but nowadays, and due to the significant skill shortage in cybersecurity the major challenge is finding the right people.

Invite me to an event

I have been speaking in events since 2009, and I was delivering undergraduate and postgraduate classes in Computer Science, Network Application programming and Security from 2001 to 2006.

Most of my presentations are posted in this blog, although I may have forgotten / lost some.

If you want me to talk in your event about security and risk management, feel free to send me a mail. My contact details are here.

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Me elsewhere

Sometimes I give interviews, or publish case studies or write articles elsewhere.

Here is what I can remember, in reverse chronological order