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Dominic Vogel, Chief Security
Strategist, Cyber.SC
An article published by ISACA
Security professionals tend to have a
penchant for making things more
complicated than they need to be. But
life and our work are complicated
enough without us adding extra layers
of needless complexity. When it
comes to operating an e鎧�ective
enterprise security program, the old
adage of “complexity being the enemy
of security” really does ring true.
Many CIOs and CISOs are guilty of
chasing the cool blinking lights of
newer technologies and keep adding
additional technologies to an already
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overburdened and poorly integrated
security stack. Many enterprise
security programs look like a
scattered city of isolated Jenga towers.
From a risk management perspective,
the more complex the infrastructure,
the harder it is to defend.
Balancing usability, security and
complexity seems like a daunting task
at times. Trying to do so on a daily
basis costs many of us our sanity
(think of Homer Simpson when he
was forced to give up beer and TV!).
During one of my more salient
moments, I came across a useful and
applicable metaphor that security
pros should heed when it comes to
balancing that aforementioned unholy
trinity…
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