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John McCumber is a security and risk professional, and author of “Assessing and Managing Security Risk in IT Systems: A Structured Methodology,” from Auerbach Publications. If...

It’s performance appraisal time. Lucky you. It’s that dreaded event where your HR department proudly manages your input to and progress through the process. Now, if you decided...

There is a common inflection point in most security practitioners’ careers where they consider leaving the corporate grind and hanging out a shingle as a consultant. Hey, if you...

I am may not the right person to opine on the cybersecurity Culture of Secrecy. My career was launched by a stint as a military member of the National Security Agency. I had been...

Originally 28 FEB 2017 It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power. Perched in a privileged ivory tower, disconnected from the real world, embroiled in meaningless academic debates over specialized minutia, or floating in the abstruse clouds of high-minded theory, intellectuals are frequently portrayed as not only cut off from political reality but as incapable of having any meaningful impact on it. The Central Intelligence Agency thinks otherwise. As a matter of ...