MM-ISAC Blog

Digging into cyber resilience in mining and metals.

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Effective Incident Response Starts Long Before the Incident

Cyber incident response is often viewed as a technical domain, with practitioners skilled in malware reverse engineering, network and host forensics,...

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Moving to Security Cost as a Metric

I’ve talked about security cost as the key metric to report on your security program when working with executives and the board. What we have not...

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A Cautionary Note on Sensationalism in Cyber Security Headlines

This month’s focus is on the importance of double-checking the work of security researchers and headlines. We live in a fast-paced news cycle and a...

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Phishing Education - Maybe 'Best Practice' is not Best After all

As security practitioners and leaders, we must contribute to the professionalization of our field by searching out data and evidence-based solutions...

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Moral Frameworks in CTI and High-Stakes Communications

We live in very polarizing times, particularly in the US. We choose our words carefully, tiptoe around topics that might devolve into argumentation...

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Precision vs Accuracy When Predicting Security Cost

As I talk through the practical application of the security cost framework with our members, we are consistently running into a common stumbling...

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Guide to Traffic Light Protocol (TLP)

Key Points: TLP is a Sharing Protocol. Companies that do not share threat information are at a disadvantage. Overclassification stifles sharing...

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Building a Phishing Program

Phishing is a significant compromise vector for all companies in all industries. At theMining and Metals ISAC annual conference in November, we...

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Digging Into Security Cost

After my last post on using Security Cost as a metric and the basis for a core security team/CISO objective, a few Mining and Metals ISAC members...

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The Hermeneutics of Cyber Threat Intelligence Part 3: Planning and Curation

What does a Greek god, a German philosopher, and a Museum Curator have to teach us about Cyber Threat Intelligence?

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