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The Savvy CISO

Cybersecurity management insights, tips, and trends for security leaders, CISOs, vCISOs, and MSSPs who want to work smarter, not harder.

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NIST AI RMF for Financial Institutions: A Complete Guide

Financial institutions are adopting AI faster than they are governing it, and the request we now hear on calls is specific: "we need a credible AI governance framework, and we think it is the NIST AI RMF. Where do we start?" Boards are asking for a...

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NIST CSF vs CIS vs CRI Profile: Which Framework Should Your Credit Union Choose?

Every credit union security leader eventually asks the same question, usually right before an exam or right after a merger: which framework does the...

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How to Turn a Risk Appetite Statement Into a Usable Curve

Somewhere in your board policy there is a sentence like this: "The credit union will not accept cyber risk exceeding 3 percent of net worth." The...

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Threat-Based vs Asset-Based Risk Assessment: NCUA View

Pull up your current risk assessment and look at what the rows actually are. For most institutions, they are threats: ransomware, phishing, insider...

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Is a Quantified Cyber Risk Number Defensible? The Inputs

The most common objection to cyber risk quantification does not come from boards. It comes from security leaders, and it goes like this: the number...

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What Should a Credit Union IT Risk Assessment Cost?

You have three proposals on your desk and the numbers are thousands of dollars apart for what each vendor calls the same thing: an IT risk...

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How to Review a SOC 2 Report in Minutes, Not Hours

A security manager at a credit union told us recently that vendor security reviews are the bane of his existence. Another opened a call by saying a...

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Cyber Risk Appetite Statement

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How to Write a Cyber Risk Appetite Statement

For CISOs, IT risk leaders, compliance officers, and the board committees they report to, a cyber risk appetite statement is the document that...

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Risk in Dollars, Not Colors: A Complete Guide to Board Reporting

A security officer at a credit union told me that in his entire time at the institution, they had never once talked about risk in numbers. Colors,...

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Shadow AI: A Guide to Finding the AI Already Inside Your Institution

A security officer at a credit union described their AI inventory to us like this: they went through the exercise, came out the other side with only...

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