Cybersecurity risk forecasting.

Show Notes

Rick Howard, the CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at N2K Cyber, discusses the current state of cybersecurity risk forecasting with guests Fred Kneip, CyberGRX’s founder and President of ProcessUnity, and Kevin Richards, Cyber Risk Solutions President.

Howard, R., 2023. Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics [Book]. Wiley. URL: https://www.amazon.com/Cybersecurity-First-Principles-Strategy-Tactics/dp/1394173083.

Howard, R., 2023. Bonus Episode: 2023 Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame inductee: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Dr Phil Tetlock and Dr Dan Gardner. [Podcast]. The CyberWire. URL https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/cso-perspectives/5567/notes

Howard, R., 2022. Risk Forecasting with Bayes Rule: A practical example. [Podcast]. The CyberWire. URL https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/cso-perspectives/88/notes

Howard, R, 2023. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction [Book review]. Cybersecurity Canon Project. URL icdt.osu.edu/superforecasting-art-and-science-prediction.

Howard, R., 2022. Two risk forecasting data scientists, and Rick, walk into a bar. [Podcast]. The CyberWire. URL https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/cso-perspectives/89/notes

Howard, R., Freund, J., Jones, J., 2016. 2016 Cyber Canon Inductee - Measuring and Managing Information Risk: A FAIR approach [Interview]. YouTube. URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxBpAnSBaGM

Hubbard , D.W., Seiersen, R., 2016. How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk [Book]. Goodreads. URL https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26518108-how-to-measure-anything-in-cybersecurity-risk

Clark, B., Seiersen , R., Hubbard, D., 2017. “How To Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk” - Cybersecurity Canon 2017 [Interview]. YouTube. URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o_mAavdabg&t=93s

Freund, J., Jones, J., 2014. Measuring and Managing Information Risk: A FAIR Approach [Book]. Goodreads. URL https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22637927-measuring-and-managing-information-risk

Katz, D., 2021. Corporate Governance Update: “Materiality” in America and Abroad [Essay]. The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. URL https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2021/05/01/corporate-governance-update-materiality-in-america-and-abroad/

Posner, C., 2023. SEC Adopts Final Rules on Cybersecurity Disclosure [Essay]. The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. URL https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2023/08/09/sec-adopts-final-rules-on-cybersecurity-disclosure/

Linden, L.V., Kneip, F., Squier, Suzie , 2022. Threats Across the Globe & Benchmarking with CyberGRX [Podcast]. Retail & Hospitality ISAC Podcast. URL https://pca.st/a49enjb1

Lizárraga, C.J., 2023. Improving the Quality of Cybersecurity Risk Management Disclosures [Essay]. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. URL https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/lizarraga-statement-cybersecurity-072623

Staff, 2022. Benchmarking Cyber-Risk Quantification [Survey]. Gartner. URL https://www.gartner.com/en/publications/benchmarking-cyber-risk-quantification

Tetlock, P.E., Gardner, D., 2015. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction [Book]. Goodreads. URL https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995360-superforecasting

Winterfeld, S., 2014. How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk [Book review]. Cybersecurity Canon Project. URL https://icdt.osu.edu/how-measure-anything-cybersecurity-risk

HOST(S):

Rick Howard is the CSO of N2K and the Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at the N2K Cyber, formerly CyberWire. His past lives include CSO at Palo Alto Networks, CISO at TASC, the GM at Verisign/iDefense, the Counterpane SOC Director, and the Commander of the Army's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). Rick served 25 years in the Army, taught computer science at West Point, edited two books and just published his own book, "Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics" and he is regularly joined at the N2K Cyber's Hash Table by a collection of industry experts.

Schedule: Mondays (in season)

Credits: Edited by John Petrik and executive produced by Peter Kilpe. Our theme song is by Blue Dot Sessions, remixed by the insanely talented Elliott Peltzman, who also does the show's mixing, sound, and original score

Creator: CyberWire, Inc.