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Dave Lewis

Advisory CISO — Global

Dave Lewis has 25 years of experience in IT security operations and management including a decade dealing with critical infrastructure security. He is the founder of the security site Liquidmatrix Security Digest and cohost of the Liquidmatrix podcast as well as the host of the Plaintext and Murder Board podcasts. Lewis writes columns for Daily Swig, Forbes and several other publications.

5 articles by Dave Lewis

Off With Their Heads!

Calls for jail time for C-suite executives after a data breach are getting louder, but proposed legislation such as the Corporate Executive Accountability Act would not prevent data breaches. Instead, it would will simply result in organizations lawyering up, CISO Advisor Dave Lewis argues.

CISO, Corporate Security, Government

Security Education: Running With Scissors

The lessons we learned as children can be applied to security education and training.

Rsac, Security Training

A Traveler’s Guide to OPSEC

Traveling can be a lot of fun, but it can also present myriad challenges when it comes to keeping your information and devices secure. A few simple steps and a little advance planning can go a long way to increasing your operational security.

OPSEC, Rsac2019

Dude, Where’s My Car With My Lunch?

"If it bleeds, it leads..." We have a perverse fascination with autonomous vehicles, especially when they fail, and even more so when there is a fatality.

CISO

Security Debt and the Keys to the Kingdom

Security debt is the accumulation of the patches missed, the risks accepted, and the configurations misapplied. Many enterprise security problems arise when the bill comes due.

CISO, Security