Security Metrics – a Failure?
Measuring security is a problem – and not something new. When I look at what we did at Swisscom, we are severely challenged in this area. A lot of companies measure things like incidents etc., metrics...
View ArticleMy Next Adventure – Do You Want to Join In?
In the two years as a Chief Security Officer at Swisscom, I had the privilege to work with a really outstanding team to prove what I said since years: Security has to be a business enabler – even in...
View ArticleMy First Steps at Accenture – Employment Opportunities
On the one side: Unfortunately, my garden leave is over – on the other side, cool to start working again. My first days at Accenture are over now and I have to say: Quite an experience. I met a...
View ArticleSecurity Detection – The Next Generation
You might be aware of the fact, that I am not a too big fan of classical SIEM tools. In my opinion, they often fail to deliver good results efficiently, deliver too many false positives and need quite...
View ArticleSecurity in the digital age
I just started to blog on the Accenture Banking Blog as well – it is in German: Problemdenken abschalten – denn mit Sicherheit sind die neuen Banken-Lösungen Angreifern gewachsen
View ArticleFintech & Cyber Showcase 2016
Startups in the Fintech and Cyber area have the potential to really disrupt the business and the way we do security. Therefore, we decided to support the Fintech & Cyber Showcase 2016 – Israel...
View ArticleAccenture Acquires Maglan
It is one of the acquisitions and investments we do as we know that we – and the market – need absolute top knowhow to leverage digital, the cloud and whatever will come in the near future....
View ArticleChristmas Wishes for Cyber Defense?
First of all I have to apologize: I had quite some technical issues with my blog and therefore had some time between now and the last post…. Today I would like to tap your brains: It is close to...
View ArticleAccenture Technology Vision 2017
The Accenture Technology Vision is a visionary piece of work showing where we see technology develop over time. It is interesting to see that more and more people are getting back to the center of what...
View ArticleThreat Intelligence – The Next Big Thing and a Game-Changing Acquisition by...
I made this statement often: To me a good and sound threat intelligence, which is linking to the business will be absolutely key in the future. Therefore we entered into agreement to acquire iDefense –...
View ArticleShortage of Cybersecurity Workforce to Increase – An Opportunity for Managed...
One of the discussions I have with a lot of customers is around managed security services. Especially themes like Security Operation Centers seem to be fairly emotional as quite some customers want to...
View ArticleAttacks on the Critical Infrastructure happen!
It is not new that in December 2015 and December 2016 Ukraine suffered a power outage due to a cyber-attack. Researchers now figured out that both attacks leveraged the same framework to base their...
View ArticleExpected Threats in the Next 6 Months
As Threat Intelligence is one of the key assets to be built in companies, the right information sources will be key. The challenge there is not only to get information but to transform it into...
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