Posts by Alan Levine

Alan Levine, Cyber Security Advisor

Alan leverages a 30 year global CISO career to share best practices in cybersecurity. He is an expert in risk management, reputation risk, the regulatory environment and other responsibilities the modern CISO must juggle. Alan is currently a cyber security advisor and is on the faculty and advisory board of the Heinz College CISO Executive Program at Carnegie Mellon University. You can find him on Linkedin.

Ransomware: When Policy Matters Most

by Alan Levine November 1, 2024February 26, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Most CISOs divide their approach to cyber defense into three pillars: people, technology, and processes. These pillars define a cybersecurity program’s defensive architecture and arsenal, available assets, and policies and...

Selling to a CISO? Practice Empathy, Not Salesmanship

by Alan Levine November 14, 2022February 28, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

The cybersecurity marketplace is hot. Ask any candidate for a cybersecurity role. Better yet, ask any supplier to CISOs. The supplier audience is especially vast, and it’s continuing to grow....

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs—CISO Leadership

by Alan Levine November 10, 2022February 28, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Let’s say you need to apply a critical patch across the organization, and the patch requires a reboot. While forcing a reboot to apply a critical patch is important, it...

Good Enough Isn’t Good Enough Anymore

by Alan Levine November 8, 2022February 28, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

The cyber risks we face today are more than we faced previously but also fundamentally different in several respects. Our adversaries are more adept and their tools and tactics more...

Effective Board Communication for CISOs

by Alan Levine October 4, 2022February 28, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Know Your Board If you’re a CISO, your Board generally knows who you are and what you do. But do you know who they are? No Board is monolithic. Each...

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