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Security decision records: how to document risk decisions
A security decision record captures what was decided, why and what would change it. Here is a lightweight template that keeps risk decisions auditable.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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Starting a security champions program: the first 90 days
A 90 day plan for a security champions program: who to pick, what time to ask for, what champions do, and how to tell it is working without surveillance.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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What does a security champions captain actually do?
The captain is the one named person who runs a security champions program: convenes the group, keeps management support and replaces champions who leave.
Oct 18, 20264 min read
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Can you start a security career without a degree?
Yes. Degrees help but are rarely mandatory. How experience, credentials and projects fit together, and what ISC2 says about degree credit toward CISSP.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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Security baseline for an AI startup's first 90 days on LLM APIs
A phased checklist for a small team shipping an LLM-backed product: keys, limits, logging, vendor terms and outage plans, in the order to do them.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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Triaging a security backlog with two engineers and no security team
How to cut a long list of scanner findings to a short, owned queue: four questions, a simple scoring rule, and a cap on work in progress for tiny teams.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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Security awareness training: six myths and what is actually true
Six common beliefs about awareness training, from annual courses to blaming users, checked against what regulators and guidance such as NIST and CISA say.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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The four security architecture views FDA recommends
FDA recommends four views in premarket submissions: global system, multi-patient harm, updatability and patchability, and security use cases.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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What a good security advisory contains: a checklist for vendors
What to put in your own security advisory so customers can act: affected and fixed versions, workarounds, CVE, credit and timeline, per OWASP guidance.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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