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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.

Cyber Risk Quantification

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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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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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