Rick's First Principles Newsletter
Rick HowardI study cybersecurity strategies that buy down business risk.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 76 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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The Moon Exploded. What Does That Have to Do With Your SOC Team Calculating Risk?
There is no actuarial table for cybersecurity risk. There never has been. Every precise-sounding number you have ever seen in a board deck was either estimated, modeled, or invented.
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Book Review: Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Book 2)
The second rule of Dungeon Crawler Carl is that every problem Carl solves creates a worse problem. The first rule is that Carl will always try to solve the problem anyway. There is no third rule.
I finished the first book in the six-book s...
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For the U.S. Memorial Day, officially the last Monday in May, I’m re-publishing my essay from last year that marked the holiday. Since then, the U.S. government has conducted one military operation and is in th...
Book Review: Dungeon Crawler Carl
Recommended for D&D fans.
Recommended for Hunger Games fans.
Recommended for lovers of great voice acting talent.
I just finished The Count of Monte Cristo. It was great but long; 60 hours in audio format. I needed a palate clean...
Stop Measuring ATT&CK Coverage.
If your ATT&CK dashboard can tell you that “Credential Access” is a problem but can’t tell you which adversary campaign is lighting up, you don’t have a strategy dashboard. You have wall art.
I’ve been a fan of the MITRE ATT&CK framework f...
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