Perspectives: Looking at InfoSec from a variety of different lenses

Alex Colclough
4 min readNov 11, 2020

If you work in information security, you’ve probably found yourself in a struggle with the business over something. And it almost always comes down to risk, cost benefit analysis, and how it integrates with a decision that the business makes. Through my eight months at my current employer, i have learned to analyze and learn how or why the business chooses to make decision X, Y, or Z. The point of this story is to expand on why it’s important to see the perspective of the business on any decision that you make in your implementation of a new…

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Alex Colclough
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Alex Colclough is a recovering system administrator that has made the full-time switch to Information Security.