Leadership

The cost of resetting a password

If someone asked you how much the cost of a task is, I bet you would struggle to given them an accurate response, the default position of most people is to underestimate a cost of doing something (but estimation science show’s us that it tends to vary based on role e.g. project managers are risk averse, engineers think they can solve things faster than they can and executives often just want it to be cheaper for the sake of it being cheaper – Parkinsons Squeeze I think that is called)

Years ago I stared looking at total cost of ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment modelling (I mean a lot of years ago….) and I’ve created a range of models for organisations for:

  • Sales Estimation
  • Business Cases
  • Budget Planning
  • Project Planning
  • System Optimisation Analysis
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Business Email Compromise Check List

As part of my Cyber SOC GitHub repo I’ve put together lots of resources to try and help people with some common cyber security tasks, applicable to CISOs through to SOC analysts.

I also want to highlight one of the most common incident types if you are an Office 365 customer is a business email compromise scenario, so I’ve put together a high level view of the steps you might want to take after a BEC event is discovered:

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Leadership

It’s 2023 and people’s passwords are still really really…

If you work in marketing you are probably walking around telling everyone that we all live in a ZERO trust era, that PASSWORDS are DEAD! Ransomware is DEAD and AI is the FUTURE and we should be doing that NOW!

Meanwhile back on CYBER PLANET EARTH, most organisation do NOT have or need AI, they use passwords and well they passwords they use are shockingly bad! Howe do I know this? I do password audits and security testing, but I also look at breach data! (and we have other people publish password audit reports etc.)

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