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Why A “Group of Rivals” Developed A
Cybersecurity Taxonomy, And What It
Buys You
Advancing Risk Management and Stemming the River of Risk by Adopting the Consistent Taxonomy
of Cybersecurity Threats – Cybersecurity’s “Lingua Franca.”
By Charlie Miller, Senior Advisor, Shared Assessments, CTPRP, Distinguished
Ponemon Fellow
Companies have been assessing their risks for ages so that they can mitigate them. When companies
began to outsource, they faced new risk challenges because they didn’t have much visibility into the
control adequacy of the third parties they used. Technology, digital transformation, networking
connectivity, and the Internet have grown into a commercial space over the past 25 years, and companies
— and their third parties — now face a complex ecosystem of cybersecurity issues. As a cybersecurity
risk professional, you know them all.
Except maybe for the new ones somebody is concocting right now.
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