We’ve covered how management uses policies to govern an undertaking, whether that’s a business, a household, or one’s career. Today we’ll continue the Governance series with a look at standards and how ...

Last week, we looked at risk mitigation. If you do something to reduce your vulnerability to a threat, or the impact of that threat, the risk goes down. Your personal firewall, your ...

Last week, I started talking about risk management by talking about how it relates to something as mundane as forgetting your car keys. I’m going to stick with that analogy as we ...

In Part 2, we discussed the Missions, Visions, and Charters, which define a task, lay out an overall strategy for accomplishing that task, and authorize someone to do it. Today, we’ll discuss ...

Risk management. Assessment, Vulnerabilities, threats, and impact. Mitigation, assignment, acceptance. If you don’t do security for a living, or do it as a purely technical activity, these can sound like terms from ...