I’ve been out of the CISO world for 3.5 months now, and that’s given me a lot of perspective. I’ve had a chance to reflect on what I’ve learned over 30 years in IT and spoke to a bunch of people recently.

I can summarize what organizations need to do to better secure their data, prevent ransomware and whatnot:

Stop fucking around.

I think that will be the title of my book.