Derek Slater
Derek helped create and launch CSO in 2002, and served as Editor in Chief of the magazine and website from 2006 through 2013.
Business continuity and disaster recovery planning: The basics
Good business continuity plans will keep your company up and running through interruptions of any kind: power failures, IT system crashes, natural disasters, supply chain problems and more.
77 MORE great ideas for running a security program
Practical ideas from CSOs and subject matter experts of all sorts.
77 MORE great ideas for running a security program
Practical ideas from CSOs and subject matter experts of all sorts
A walking tour: 33 questions to ask about your company's security
Get out of the office, look around, and get a fresh perspective on protecting employees, assets, and data
Containerization and mobile threats
For a short and very enjoyable history lesson, watch this Youtube video.
I like risk
Many chess players--and I'm sure you are going to find this hard to believe--are boring. Even to their fellow chess players.
Chef Ramsay will see you now
Sometimes agents of change have to turn up to volume. And sometimes not.
Decade of the CSO
Security as a profession has come a long way in the last decade. This is not just noteworthy, it's also worth celebrating.
Cloud control
I had the pleasure of sharing the stage at the Cloud Leadership Forum with John Howie. Howie is the newly minted chief operating officer for the Cloud Security Alliance. He came to the CSA after a tenure at "a large cloud...
Pulling it all together: a special report on GRC
I like the concept of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) for two reasons. One reason is completely tactical, the other completely conceptual. First, the tactical: compliance complexity reduction. This garbled regulatory compliance...
Disaster recovery is a success just waiting to happen
Security--the topic, and thus the department--sometimes gets pigeonholed as a downer. Maybe from time to time you notice a coworker avoiding getting in the elevator with you. A CSO once told me it's even worse when you get in the...