Richard A. Clarke

Y2K … Two Decades Later

| | Climate Change, Contingency Planning, CSO/CISO Perspectives, cybersecurity risk, FS-ISAC, General, Information Security News, NIC, Richard A. Clarke, Security in Popular Culture, Spotlight, Stash Jarocki, Y2020, Y2K
Why didn’t I use the title “Y2K at Twenty” for this column to match “The FS-ISAC at Twenty” that was posted on BlogInfoSec on January 6, 2020? Good question … easy answer ...
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Pretending about Cybersecurity Risks

| | business continunity, catastrophe planning, Contingency Planning, Disaster Recovery, DR/BC, General, resiliency, Richard A. Clarke, Spotlight, The Fifth Domain
I have written a couple of columns comparing cybersecurity risk management to managing climate change—one with the title “Cybersecurity Climate Change” (December 10, 2018), and the other “The Cybersecurity Paradox” (June 19, ...
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Are Ransom Payments Supporting Terrorists?

| | Contingency Planning, CSO/CISO Perspectives, cyber insurance, cybercrime, Cyberwarfare, General, InfoSec Economics, ransom payments, Ransomware, Richard A. Clarke, Robert K. Knake, spotight, Spotlight, The Fifth Domain
Organizations, particularly those that recognize that they don’t have essential security and data recovery measures in place, have taken out cyber insurance, which they are regularly using to pay off ransomware attackers ...
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