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CISOs, CSOs, Security Professionals, Project Managers.....Welcome!
CISOHandbook.com is a resource site for CISO's, CSO's, and security professionals. A place where security executives, managers, and practitioners can share ideas, challenges and opportunities associated with developing, participating, or managing Enterprise Security Programs.
 
The site contains metrics, tools, opinions, and most importantly access to CISO's, CSO's, experts, and other professionals in the field of security.  The sole intent of the site is to share information, ideas, tips, and techniques for addressing security issues faced by today's professional. 
 
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How do you Measure Up? Take the Security Leader Assessment

This assessment is designed to evaluate your current progress as a security leader, within your specific environment. As we see the security industry changing we want to get a temperature for how security leaders are doing within their environment. As follow up with this survey we will aim a lot of our energy and focus to provide resources and content that tangibly help security leaders and equip them to improve and optimize their security programs and roadmaps.

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Security Opinion

Build a Winning Security System or Get Fired: The Choice is Yours
By Mike Gentile, CISSP and CISOHandbook.com team 

Preface


Over the years, I have been in hundreds of security programs around the globe.   Whether large or small, a financial conglomerate or non-profit, they generally always struggle with one thing: They can’t describe to me what their security program produces and how they produce it as a simple multi-step process. In other words, they do not have a security system. This article, which will be a series of many over the coming months, will explore the art of building a successful security system. It will build on the premise that it is more important in the modern enterprise to demonstrate the repeatable method by which your security effort performs work, than the actual work it is performing itself.

Click here to read the rest of this article
Security Opinion

3 Tips for Measuring the Value of a Proposed Security Project

By Mike Gentile

Preface:


Many security programs spend countless hours every budget cycle trying to determine which projects to undertake for the upcoming year. Should we replace our firewalls, should we take on that federated identity management project (yuck!) Perhaps we should go with old reliable and do what our favorite research organization tells us to do (Bad choice).  One of the key components during this process is to determine the value of performing a specific security project, thus providing a decision criterion about whether it should be put on the “to-do” list or not. This article will provide simple but effective tips for determining the value of a proposed security project in the common organizational security program setting.
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Security Opinion

Understanding the Tangible and Intangible Elements of a Security Program

By Mike Gentile, CISSP and CISOHandbook.com team 

Preface:

Building security programs is difficult.  They have many moving parts and require those who lead them to have knowledge across many different disciplines. Over the years, the team at CISOHandbook.com has strived to develop models that can help with solving this security program development riddle. This article will discuss some improvements and enhancements we have made within our models in helping you develop the right security programs for your organization.

 

Dealing with Secondhand Stress

By Daniel Johnson, SBN Principal Partner, Balance.point/Self Mastery Foundation Inc. 
 
If you have been following this series, you now have a toolkit of techniques and strategies to manage stress quickly and effectively.

 

The next question you may ask is:  How do I deal with stress at the source? 

 
 
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This practical, easy-to-use tool enables the user to identify the strengths and weaknesses of their security program across six core areas including:

  • Program Strategy
  • Mission And Mandate
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Security Policies
  • Security Project Portfolio
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Additionally, your review is benchmarked against all of the other organizations that have used the tool, providing you even more statistical information.

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We are conducting a survey for research we are performing in the domain of information security. The goal of this reseach is to help identify tools, tips, and techniques that can aid security professionals with the intangible complexities associated with implementing security in the modern organization. In addition, for your time as a survey participant, we will provide you the trended results from the survey in 2011.
 
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