Category Archives: Management theory

Making cyberspace healthier

I was delighted and honoured to be invited by Professor Katina Michael to provide input...

Thinking creatively about information assets in retail and hospitality

In my last blog Improving the Position of the CISO, I introduced the new research...

Improving the position of the CISO

Over the years, we security professionals have tried all sorts of things to make better...

From Information Security to Digital Competitiveness

Exploring new strategic opportunities for CIOs and CISOs. For as long as we’ve had a...

Revisiting software professionalism

The ongoing debate (or spat) on Twitter about the “No Estimates” movement had me reaching...

A software engineer’s memoir (work in progress)

I’m an ex software “engineer” [I have reservations about that term] with some life experience...

The end of standards

A colleague drew my attention to what he called “yet another management standard”. Which got...

Policy fads and policy failures

In cyber security, user awareness, education and training have long gone past their Use By...

There is no algorithm for good management

There is a malaise in security. One problem is that as a “profession”, we’ve tried...