Joshua Goldfarb

By Controlling Security Technology Portion Size, Organizations Can Better Address Strategic Requirements and Work More Efficiently

The Vendor Risk Management (VRM) space has quickly become a hot topic this year.  It seems like everywhere you turn, new companies offering VRM...

Why Do We Get Angry With People for Doing What We Incentivize Them to Do?

The Value Most Organizations Get Out of Their SIEM Deployment is Far Lower Than it Used to Be

Those of us That Spend our Lives in Security Sometimes Forget How our Field Looks and Sounds to Others

Conflict isn’t Pleasant, But Sometimes it Can be Healthy and Necessary When Done Properly and Respectfully

In my previous column, I took a look at some of the behaviors that salespeople sometimes exhibit that make it more difficult for them...

There are few things in life more dissimilar than security practitioners and the salespeople that sell to them.  The interaction between these two groups...

After High Profile Cyber Incidents, Actionable Information is Often Buried in an Avalanche of Hype, Buzz, and Misinformation

Many Security Professionals Find Themselves Trapped in a Cycle of “Sexy” - What Can We Do About It?  

Security is not a technology profession. Or at least it shouldn’t be, I would argue. If this sounds like a provocative statement to you,...

Wikipedia defines “ambulance chasing” as follows: “Ambulance chasing, sometimes known as barratry, is a professional slur which refers to a lawyer soliciting for clients...

A Seat at the Security Table Should Not be for Only the Elite and Largest of Businesses or Security Vendors

Do You Have Data Around What Security Products and Services Other Organizations Use and How They Use Them? 

In my previous piece, I discussed the difficulty vendors sometimes have in understanding what security buyers are really looking for.  As I mentioned in...

The information security market has been a topic of acute interest for quite some time now.  Estimates around the current size of the market...

Recently, I was thinking about the time during high school when I took a trip to visit my elementary school. I’m not sure why...

Recently, the WannaCry ransomware worm was big news.  For security professionals working inside organizations with unpatched systems vulnerable to infection, it was a particularly...

Recently, I was reminded of the well known quote from William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet”: "A rose by any other name would smell...