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Pragmatic CSO Podcast
by Mike Rothman
The Pragmatic CSO podcast is a wide ranging discussion of information security topics, anchored by the 12-step Pragmatic CSO methodology to help security practitioners become more relevant in business operations.
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #23 - Picking the Right Product
This week we'll focus on the 2nd half of Step 6: Buying Security Products, which get down and dirty in picking the product. We've already engaged with a long list of potential vendors (we discussed that last week) and now it's time to figure out what will work for you. Next we do a bake-off and...
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #22 - Homework for Buying Security Products
As we jump into Step 6: Buying Security Products, it makes sense to understand what kind of homework we are going to have to do prepare for the process. Remember, it's easy to buy something, it's hard to buy the right thing at the right time for the right price. So this week we discuss the first…
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #21 - Grass Roots Funding
It's time to wrap up Step 5: Selling the Story. We finish the discussion by talking about how to get funding, when the budget monkeys have told you no. Basically we have to take a "grass roots funding" approach to go to the business leaders directly, make the case, and get the funding we need.…
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #20 - The Sales Pitch
July 30, 2008 - This week we talk about the sales pitch. This is the part that most security practitioners hate. Actually having to get in front of folks and ask for money. Although if you've followed the process up to now, then you should be in great shape to put together a compelling story and…
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #19 - Resetting Expectations
This week we continue with Step 5: Selling the Story by reiterating the need to manage expectations appropriately. As you know, this is a common theme throughout the Pragmatic CSO, but when we are selling senior management on the security program, strategy, outputs, milestones, and funding...
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #18 - Finding the Bags of Money
June 25, 2008 - This week we start into Step 5: Selling the Story by discussing funding scenarios. This is a technique that Pragmatic CSOs use to provide some alternatives and make the scenario we want (the likely one) a bit more tangible by providing alternatives. In the show, I discuss how to...
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #17 - Back to the Future
Finally we come to the end of the line on building the security business plan. It was a long time coming, but again this is the most important step in effecting long lasting change in your security organization. First I talk about defining the future state, and setting priorities relative to what...
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #16 - Time and Milestones
This week we delve into the art of setting timelines and milestones within your business plan. After we discussed the importance of setting the bar (in terms of service levels), it's the timelines that really will determine your ultimate credibility with the senior team. Once you define the key...
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #15 - Setting the bar
This week we talk about service levels within the context of your security business plan. That's right, this is about setting the bar. Too high and you can't get there and you will be viewed upon as a failure in the executive wing. Too low and you may open yourself up to a breach on your watch.…
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #14 - Architecture vs. Design
Ah the mysteries of architecture. I can remember back to my days in college at Cornell. We had a great architecture school, but those folks seemed like magicians. They weren't around too much and it seemed like they were doing cool things, we engineers just didn't understand what it was....
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #13 - Digging Deeper into the Business Plan
This week we are going to dig a bit deeper into the business plan and deal with the first two sections of the plan. Initially we need to POSITION our securirty organization. What are we doing and why is it important? Then we need to make our PRIORITIES very clear. What do we focus on first and…
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #12 - Why do we need a business plan?
This week we get back into the Pragmatic CSO methodology, and jump into Section 2: Building Your Pragmatic Security Environment. The first step in S2 is Step 4 or Building Your Security Business Plan. Why do we need a business plan anyway? What's the point? All is revealed in podcast #12. Well…
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #11 - The Fixer
This week I take another tangential journey to discuss a concept I call "The Fixer." You know, when a senior staffer is airlifted in to "fix" security. The Fixer knows how to get things done in your organization, and can certainly be viewed as a threat and as indicative of the fact that security…
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #10 - It's So Easy
April 16 2008 - Today I go on a bit of a tirade. Basically, just coming back from RSA - I'm a bit sensitive to vendor claims vs. reality. Thus, after I've been pounded by a webcast announcement from AlertLogic for the past week about "PCI Compliance made Easy." After I cleaned the puke off my…
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #9 - Making Deposits in the Credibility Bank
This week we wrap up our stop in Step 3: Managing Expectations by talking about the long term plan. The first step of the managing expectations presentation is all about providing the context of the program and educating the senior team about why it's important. Then next step is about triage....
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #8: Triage (or saving the patient)
This week we continue our journey through Step 3: Managing Expectations and talk about how to present the "bad news," as part of your efforts to ensure the senior team knows what you are up to and why. The triage part of the discussion is also pretty important because it will indicate whether you...
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #7 - Educating the Team
This week we dive into Step 3: Managing Expectations and investigate why one of the most important things a security professional can do is to give the senior team the PERCEPTION that you're in CONTROL of the situation. Reality means little, perception means everything. A couple of the topics...
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #6 - Assessing the Skill Gap
This week we wrap up on Step 2: Taking the Baseline by being candid with ourselves and really understanding if we have a skills gap. This is one of the most brutal parts of being a manager, but it needs to be done. I refer to a few books from the Gallup Organization, so you can understand what…
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #5 - Dig (into) the Baseline
This week, we continue our journey through Step 2: Baseline Your Environment. Here are a couple of the topics covered: Finding the holes in your perimeter Looking at your applications (the most IMPORTANT one's anyway) The softer side of security: User perception and user awareness Also make sure…
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #4 - Wherefore art thou policies?
February 8, 2008: This week's show starts to delve into Step 2: Establishing the Baseline. Why you need to do this, what you are trying to achieve, and a little bit on policies (such as a monitoring policy and a communications plan). Intro music is once again "Welcome to the Jungle" and I send…
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast 3 - Getting Facetime
In this week's show I talk about getting facetime without feeling like you are banging your head against the wall. Basically a key part of Step #1 and in a broader perspective, your success as a CSO is about building relationships with the senior team and understand what is important to them. How...
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #2 - Whack a Mole
January 16, 2008 - Today's show talks about Whack a Mole and why it's an appropriate metaphor for information security nowadays. Image source: http://www.creativepro.com/ printerfriendly/story/20990.html
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #1
January 11, 2008 - Welcome to the Inaugural Pragmatic CSO Podcast. In today's show, I talk a bit about: Why I am doing a podcast (and what to expect) The 12-step Pragmatic CSO methodology Why it's tough to be a security professional nowadays A message of hope Check it out and since this is the...
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The Pragmatic CSO podcast is a wide ranging discussion of information security topics, anchored by the 12-step Pragmatic CSO methodology to help security practitioners become more relevant in business operations.
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Mike Rothman
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