You Can Stop Stupid: Stopping Losses from Accidental and Malicious Actions

Stopping Losses from Accidental and Malicious Actions

Around the world, users cost organizations billions of dollars due to simple errors and malicious actions. They believe that there is some deficiency in the users. In response, organizations believe that they have to improve their awareness efforts and making more secure users. This is like saying that coalmines should get healthier canaries. The reality is that it takes a multilayered approach that acknowledges that users will inevitably make mistakes or have malicious intent, and the failure is in not planning for that. It takes a holistic approach to assessing risk combined with technical defenses and countermeasures layered with a security culture and continuous improvement. Only with this kind of defense in depth can organizations hope to prevent the worst of the cybersecurity breaches and other user-initiated losses.

Using lessons from tested and proven disciplines like military kill-chain analysis, counterterrorism analysis, industrial safety programs, and more, Ira Winkler and Dr. Tracy Celaya's You CAN Stop Stupid provides a methodology to analyze potential losses and determine appropriate countermeasures to implement.

• Minimize business losses associated with user failings
• Proactively plan to prevent and mitigate data breaches
• Optimize your security spending
• Cost justify your security and loss reduction efforts
• Improve your organization's culture

Business technology and security professionals will benefit from the information provided by these two well-known and influential cybersecurity speakers and experts.

Ira Winkler, CISSP is President of Secure Mentem and is considered one of the world's most influential security professionals. He has gained media notoriety for performing espionage simulations, where he physically and technically "broke into" some of the largest companies in the World and investigating crimes against them, and telling them how to cost effectively protect their information and computer infrastructure. He continues to perform these espionage simulations, as well as assisting organizations in developing cost effective security programs. Ira also won the Hall of Fame award from the Information Systems Security Association, as well as several other prestigious industry awards. Most recently, CSO Magazine named Ira a CSO Compass Award winner as The Awareness Crusader. Ira is also a columnist for DarkReading and ComputerWorld, and writes for several other industry publications. Mr. Winkler has been a keynote speaker at almost every major information security related event, on 6 continents, and has keynoted events in many diverse industries.

Dr. Tracy Celaya Brown, CISSP is President of Go Consulting Int'l. She is a sought-after consultant in IT Security Program Management, Organizational Development, and Change Management, and a U.S. Air Force veteran. As an international and top-rated speaker, she has been a guest lecturer at Arizona State University and spoken at some of the most well-known security related events in the world including RSA USA, RSA Asia-Pacific, ISACA CSX North America & Europe, and SecureCISO.