How to Keep Your Security Team Happy
Juggling the needs of top performers and less-seasoned team members can be difficult, but it's critical to everyone's growth
View ArticleSuccession Planning: The Day After the Deputy CISO Left Work on a Gurney
Our anonymous CSO thought he'd planned for a disaster--until he experienced an unexpected absence of a key staff member
View ArticleA Case for Anticounterfeiting
Wherein our anonymous CSO makes and proves the argument that anticounterfeiting should be a security function
View ArticleHow Not to Hire an Information Security Officer Who's on Parole
After learning that HR "forgot" to do a background check on a security staffer with a felony record, a leader reexamines his organization's policies
View ArticleBackground Checks: How Not to Hire an Information Security Officer Who's on...
After learning that HR "forgot" to do a background check on a security staffer with a felony record, a leader reexamines his organization's policies
View ArticleA Contract Killing: The Drama of Government IT Work
Our anonymous CSO's tawdry tale of an IT services contract rollicks through software piracy, dope sales and worse. Who says government work is dull?
View ArticleUndercover: The Company that Did Everything Wrong
A comical, yet sad visit to one company that had suffered a data breach (Part 1).
View ArticleThe Company that Did Everything Wrong, Part 2
The conclusion to last month's tale of a comical yet sad visit to a company that suffered a data breach.
View ArticleDiary of a Data Breach Investigation
An information security manager shares the diary he kept while investigating a possible data breach.
View ArticleUndercover: A Case of Help Desk Failure
How a lack of coordination between departments at a large bank opened up a big security hole, and what we did about it.
View ArticleSurviving Layoffs: Five Career Lessons from the Security Trenches
Company politics, stonewalling, layoffs -- sometimes it's part and parcel of the security job. Here are one CISO's takeaways.
View ArticleA Day In The Life of Two IT Security Curmudgeons
Two IT security guys survive a routine day the way many of us do -- by observing their daily challenges in words one might find career-limiting. Here they speak frankly -- and anonymously -- in diary...
View ArticleUndercover: A Painful Lack of Security Jobs
An IT security pro's personal tale of a long and bloody job hunt and what it says about the industry's current state of affairs.
View ArticleFrom the CIO: Why You Didn't Get the CISO Job
The previous Undercover columnist lamented the state of security hiring. Here's a response from the other side of the desk.
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