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12 Jun 2025A look at Charles Cresson Wood’s Internal Policies for Artificial Intelligence Risk Management
I’ve known Charles Cresson Wood for a long time, both as a trusted business colleague and a friend. You may know him as the creator of the original masterpiece on information security policies over two decades ago: Information Security Policies Made Easy. Charles and I have worked together on a few projects over the years, and what’s always stood out to me is his ability to tie together security, legal, ...
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07 Mar 2020Speaking engagement for ALAS in Phoenix was a big success!
I had the opportunity to be invited to speak at the Attorney's Liability Assurance Society (ALAS) 2020 Cybersecurity Conference in Phoenix, AZ last week, and it was awesome. With a great group of 220 law firm IT leaders and general counsel professionals, I presented Beyond the Policies: Top 5 Security Findings (that I see in literally every security assessment I perform). I also served as a panelist for a lively ...
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22 Aug 2014CISOs, lawyers, awareness training, and other infosec blunders you need to know about
I've been super busy putting my twisted thoughts on paper...here are a few pieces you might enjoy:When your lawyer becomes your CISO The compliance crutch holding up Corporate AmericaThe fallacy of information security awareness and trainingThe one skill worth mastering in ITQuantifying the disconnect between the business and securityThe critical item that’s missing from most IT security programsWhat's your one hot button security item? Top detractors of security oversight The funny ...
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26 Apr 2013
Clueless in the cloud – think before you act
A recent Network World piece about an RSA 2013 panel that covered cloud forensics and whether or not your cloud providers will be able to come through for you in the event of a lawsuit or breach bringing some critical pitfalls of cloud computing. Two things are certain:If you're lucky enough for your business to be around for the long haul, odds are that it'll ultimately be hit with a ...
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22 Mar 2012
An interesting Microsoft tool to help with data classification
Have you ever heard of Microsoft's Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2008 R2? Me either. But it may be worth taking a look at. The lack of data classification and proper retention is at the core of many IT risks not to mention legal and compliance issues. You can't secure (or protect, or retain, or dispose of) what you don't acknowledge. If the Data Classification Toolkit is anything like ...
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10 Feb 2012
Video: The one infosec skill you need to be working on
Develop and maintain this one skill and you'll position yourself to be a much more valuable information security professional: ...
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11 May 2011
The new IT skill you *must* develop
Yesterday I had lunch with some colleagues who are lawyers that focus their work in/around compliance, intellectual property and cloud computing. It was neat to hear their perspective on where things are headed in IT. We came to the conclusion that IT professionals are going to have to learn as much as they can about the legal side of what we do.I'm not talking compliance in general but also contracts, ...
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20 Apr 2011
Legalese in email footers is useless
Ever get annoyed by those email footers telling you what you can or cannot do with the email you just received? Yeah, me too. Here's an interesting bit from Consumer Reports that talks about how those legal disclaimers in email footers may be legally useless.It's funny, every time I see them (they're in about 60-70% of the non-spam emails I recieve) I think it's yet another representation of the American ...
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