tidbits + musings!
sharing ideas and frameworks.
tidbits + musings!
sharing ideas and frameworks.
October 1, 2025
CISOs, You're Stuck: Here Are 3 Things to Do Now
Let’s be honest: that feeling that your security program is stuck in neutral often starts with you feeling paralyzed. You’re trapped not just by technical debt, but by relentless external pres[…]
September 30, 2025
CISO: Trend Reports Are The Answer to Metrics
CISO, use trending to analyze risk tolerance. For more than a decade, corporate boards, Risk Officers and CISOs have circled around the same refrain: we need a defined financial risk tolerance. It s[…]
September 10, 2025
The Office of the CISO: A Framework for the CISO
Photo courtesy of Gratisography The Office of the CISO framework integrates the (increasingly expected) elements of ‘executive’ in the context of the CISO function. CISOs are more impactful, and t[…]
August 22, 2025
The 2026 Roadmap for Tech Execs: Economy, Execution, and Cultural Environment
CISO, here’s what you’ll want to know as you start your 2026 roadmap. As CISOs begin shaping their 2026 plans, they do so against a backdrop that is “K-shaped.” This should be und[…]
July 23, 2025
2026 Roadmap: A Guide For CISOs (start early)
At Yass Partners, we publish guidance on roadmap planning every year—usually in the fall, when the pressure is on and draft decks are due. This year, we’re starting early. Consider it a public ser[…]
March 28, 2025
You're The Digital Head of Household - Guide to Getting Organized
You’re all grown up and have nice things And because you’re all grown up, you also know that you need to protect those things and prepare the people around you to be able to access and hav[…]
February 19, 2025
I'm So Sorry For Their Loss: They Called You For Help.
Many of us are the family member people call when they need help with digital things. Recently, I’d prepared this emergency mindmap for a friend who was helping the wife of his best friend (who […]
December 17, 2024
