Stories by: Anonymous

In 1995, before I began my IT career, I briefly worked in physical security for a national insurance company. I monitored the cameras, logged reports from patrol officers, made keycards for new employees, and generally dealt with whatever came up.

I have mixed feelings about outsourcing. I subscribe to the old adage, "The good Lord helps those who help themselves." This attitude may stem from my parents, who lived through the era of both World Wars and the Great Depression and know how to make do with very little. They are self-sufficient Yankees who tend not to ask for help, which I think instilled the do-it-yourself tendency in me.

Every CSO has experienced that rare security project that takes life quickly and moves with a force of its own. The project seems to leave port without you. You wake up at night thinking through what might have been missed, trying to take solace in the rapid progress.

Security convergence--that is, the true meshing of physical and cybersecurity along with business continuity management--is one of the most logical concepts that's been introduced to the security world in a very long time. Convergence makes sense conceptually in the boardroom and functionally within the organization.

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Reengineering sounded so good the first time around that my bosses decided to give it another try. Hold on to your hats.

Despite the sophistication of technology in place, when humans fail to contact each other, the process snaps

One man’s adventure into the interviewing process for a CSO position.

The coming years promise an increase in security planning to support strategic business planning. Will it be a CSO's dream come true or one big nightmare?

It's easy enough to write a security policy, but the devil's in the details when you start talking about enforcement.

I thought I ought to become my organisation's CSO until a self-assessment caused me to think again.