Post-Floppy-Disk Era of IT Risk Governance
About 20 years ago, when a floppy disk was a popular type of data storage, business data protection and security strategies were simple: keep one or more spare copies of the data stored on the floppy disks, regularly backup your file servers, and make sure that the...
Stakeholder Relationships Mapping and IT Risk Management
This post was inspired by an online interaction I recently had on LinkedIn. No matter how tempting it might be to assign a hard number to everything that we have to measure, certain high-impact strategic-level factors that the IT risk managers often deal with are hard...
The “T” Is Getting Wider: The Evolution of T-Shaped IT Risk Management Professional
Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, a legendary design company, is credited with popularizing the concept of "T-shaped" professional. According to Mr. Brown: T-shaped people have two kinds of characteristics, hence the use of the letter “T” to describe them. The vertical stroke...