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Traditional defenses are proving insufficient against the growing sophistication of cyber threats. This is where the Zero Trust Maturity Model (ZTMM), developed by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), emerges...

Zero Trust

By SideChannel · Reading time: 7 minutes

Zero trust turned 15 this year, and the distance between agreeing with it and operating it has only grown. Accenture reports that 88% of organizations hit significant obstacles putting zero trust into practice, and a Gartner survey found that 35...

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes

Governance, risk, and compliance used to be a documentation discipline. Someone owned the policy library, someone chased evidence before the audit, and someone updated the risk register once a quarter. That model worked when the number of frameworks was small and the pace of evidence collection was slow. It does not hold when a ...

My path into cybersecurity leadership was not planned. It started in the US Army, where I worked as a systems administrator on IBM mainframes. After my service, I spent years accumulating roles in IT, working as a system admin, business analyst, and project and program manager while putting myself through an MBA program and then law school at the same time.

When I f...