Driving Security Awareness with Social Media

July 20, 2009 by ADMIN · Leave a Comment

Daniel Wallace, CISSP, PMP, Information Security Consultant at Grow Forward

Nielsen Online reported that by the end of 2008 social networking had overtaken email in terms of worldwide reach. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and Linkedin provide users with a way to build and interact with a community in real time on a familiar platform at a very low cost.

A CISO’s Guide to Security Outsourcing

July 13, 2009 by ADMIN · 3 Comments

Daniel Wallace, CISSP, PMP, Information Security Consultant at Grow Forward

While the responsibility for information security’s daily care and feeding can be outsourced, the accountability for compliance, information protection, and assurance will still reside within the organization usually in the CISO’s office.

Is the CISO-as-a-Consultant Model Obsolete?

July 6, 2009 by ADMIN · Leave a Comment

Daniel Wallace, CISSP, PMP, Information Security Consultant at Grow Forward

Compounding the problem for the consultant CISO in the shorter term is that budgets are under downward pressure while the risk of fraud, insider theft and 3rd party exposure is going up. Longer term the financial crisis has forced firms to re-focus on systemic risk resulting in a revival of top-down Enterprise Risk Management efforts.