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Taking the Fifth …

C. Warren Axelrod | October 29, 2019 | "tragedy of the commons", cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Cyberwarfare, General, Michael Lewis, NIST, Richard Clarke, Robert K. Knake, Spotlight, The Fifth Domain, The Fifth Risk

“The Fifth Domain” is a recent book by Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake. It is about cybersecurity and how it has become the fifth military domain following land, sea, air ...

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Pretending about Cybersecurity Risks

C. Warren Axelrod | October 7, 2019 | 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?

C. Warren Axelrod | September 23, 2019 | 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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“All for One and One for All”

C. Warren Axelrod | September 9, 2019 | CSO/CISO Perspectives, Cybersecurity, Cyberwar, Cyberwarfare, ENISA, FS-ISAC, General, Information Security News, ISAC, NATO, Spotlight, The Fifth Domain

… So chanted the Three Musketeers. One of my main issues with cybersecurity risk management is that organizations seek to secure their own systems, data and networks, hoping that attackers will move ...

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