No this is not about a new VP of marketing at some security vendor. I was reading an article today about a presentation at RSA Europe by Lee Parrish, VP and CISO of construction firm Parsons Corporation. At a time when most of the departments and budgets in his company where shrinking, Parsons nearly doubled his security budget and was hiring more people.

I know you think they must have had a really poor security department, suffered a breach and so finally security got the attention it deserved. You would be wrong. How did Parrish accomplish this feat? Easily, he “marketed security” internally to the board and stakeholders at his company. Continue reading →