Insight into Security Program Strategy & Operations

Faculty Advisor: Enterprise-Wide Collaboration to Minimize Impact of Activist Events

One of my areas of responsibility is developing an action plan for dealing with activist groups.  Can you give me some pointers on evaluating and disseminating strategies that would minimize disruption and promote a safe environment during this type of activity or event?  From an information security standpoint, what are the potential risks of monitoring these groups on the Internet?

Why Security Needs to Understand Digital Transformation: A Primer

Security cannot ignore that their customers expect transactional experiences to be easy, fast and reliable.

Security Barometer Results: Do Cyber and Corporate Security Work Together in Your Organization?

Both cyber/information security and corporate/physical security have roles to play in protecting and securing the organization.

Faculty Advisor: Current Challenges Security Leaders are Facing

One of the most frequent questions we’re asked is what are the challenges or hot issues leading CSOs we work with are encountering?

When Your Security Nightmare Comes True

A brief overview of the changes playing out in the legal realm of negligence, defensibility, and what constitutes a defensible security program.

Forces of Change: What's on Senior Management's Radar and the Potential Impact on Your Security Strategy

We've tracked a few trends of executive interest that are likely to come up in board meetings and hallway conversations. If you're not ready to talk about your response to these issues, now is a good time to examine them.

Corporate Security Maturity Assessment Peer Comparison

This is a comparison summary of scores from security leaders who have completed maturity assessments based on the SEC's maturity framework maturity scores.

Ranking Security Performance

Here are four of the most often-used methodologies we've seen for demonstrating how your security program ranks to corporate leadership team.

Economic Espionage and the Growing Case for Corporate Counterintelligence

The theft of information and intelligence is increasingly gathered on U,S, companies by foreign entities that use the results for a variety of different type of what is now called economic espionage.

Personal Electronic Devices in the Workplace

This Security Barometer poll found the number of respondents reporting using personal electronic devices in the workplace has increased to 80%. and the frequency of use of the personal devices has been growing.

Is it Time for a Corporate Security Maturity Assessment?

The benefits that can be achieved from Capability Maturity Models are not just for IT security.

What is Security's Role Regarding Drones

The SEC investigated how security practitioners were approaching the influx of UAS use in their respective organizations. Over 20% of respondents reported Security was involved in anti-drone policies.

Security’s Role in Corporate Social Responsibility

The Security Executive Council has noticed an uptick in the number of security executives being asked to run corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs for their organizations.

Emerging Issue Awareness

Emerging issue awareness means something different in every company and industry, and upper management is looking for it now more than ever.