Six Levers That Quietly Change Your Risk And How To Spot Them
Security Boulevard, Monday, June 2nd, 2025
If there's one thing I've mastered, it's doing risk wrong, which is how I learned to do it less wrong. I developed this framework after years of watching risk models buckle under real-world pressure. There are two early-career blunders that still live rent-free in my head.
Back in 2011, I was a mid-level risk analyst at a regional bank. Each quarter I refreshed our 'existential technology risk' deck for the C-suite and board: classic red, yellow, green heat maps. Life was good. I turned reds to yellows, yellows to greens, and everyone applauded:
'Look at the ROI on our security spend. Risk keeps going down!'