Stories by David Geer

How to determine your company's real risk appetite

By David Geer | 26 February, 2013 20:46

In a 2012 customer survey conducted by the Corporate Executive Board (CEB), 70 percent of respondents said they do not have a formal risk-appetite approach in place. "Seventeen percent said they have something in place that is actually working," confirms Matt Shinkman, senior director of risk management research and advisory at the CEB.

Cloud security rebuttal: Don't rebuke the many for the sins of the few

By David Geer | 22 January, 2013 14:35

Long-time cloud security advocate Chris Hoff challenges our recent '7 deadly sins' story

5 places your data goes to hide

By David Geer | 14 January, 2013 16:03

From autosaved spreadsheets to test systems using real data -- CISOs warn of five oft-overlooked sources of data leaks

7 deadly sins of cloud computing

By David Geer | 02 January, 2013 14:56

Increasing your use of cloud computing? Great! Making these common security mistakes? Not great!

3 more tabletop exercises for business continuity

By David Geer | 22 October, 2012 15:19

This set of 3 tabletop exercises has proven popular over the intervening years, so here's another troika for testing your processes for resilience or recovery.

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Security Awareness Tip

Incident handling is a vast topic, but here are a few tips for you to consider in your incident response. I hope you never have to use them, but the odds are at some point you will and I hope being ready saves you pain (or your job!).


  1. Have an incident response plan.

  2. Pre-define your incident response team 

  3. Define your approach: watch and learn or contain and recover.

  4. Pre-distribute call cards.

  5. Forensic and incident response data capture.

  6. Get your users on-side.

  7. Know how to report crimes and engage law enforcement. 

  8. Practice makes perfect.

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Warning: Tips for secure mobile holiday shopping

I’m dating myself, but I remember when holiday shopping involved pouring through ads in the Sunday paper, placing actual phone calls from tethered land lines to research product stock and availability, and actually driving places to pick things up. Now, holiday shoppers can do all of that from a smartphone or tablet in a few seconds, but there are some security pitfalls to be aware of.

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