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Shawna Turner-Rice

Shawna Turner-Rice

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill. Keep calm and carry on.

Shawna Turner-Rice has contributed 14 posts to The State of Security.


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Recent Posts by Shawna Turner-Rice

Are your security people lying about the impacts? Probably, but not on purpose.

Challenges in placing information security teams in the right organizational structure

Say it ain't so! Risk Management isn't a silver bullet with no problems?!

Why physical and information security working together might give a Hollywood spy a headache

Who's measuring Information Security Risk anyway?

Public Service Announcement - Stress and Burnout in the InfoSec Community

Considering PII as "Potential" Information on unique Identity

Why Roman Emperors are security relevant (CAESERS FE and InfoSec)

How do you eat an elephant?

Why Security carries a Risk Management umbrella wherever it goes

Are your security people lying about the impacts? Probably, but not on purpose.

by Shawna Turner-Rice

Security is a complex, often nuanced, topic. Today there’s a lot of subjectivity in 100% security oriented discussions. Business people like non-squidgy objective numbers. To make security investment decisions, security people have to sell their area to the business; which means speaking their language. As a consequence, security people are often trying to make objective [...]

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Challenges in placing information security teams in the right organizational structure

Challenges in placing information security teams in the right organizational structure

by Shawna Turner-Rice

I often write blogs based on what crosses my inbox during a week; and recently I saw just enough articles on who security should report to that I thought I’d select it as the topic du jour.  (Much like Adam, I rarely seem to get to writing these early. This isn’t a new topic, I [...]

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