One of the CISOs I follow on Twitter triumphantly tweeted (oohhhh….’lotta ‘literation there): “I think I managed to speak CEO effectively today.” And I think that’s great. It’s an achievement…and it’s also something that’s a bit like Steven Wright’s photo of Houdini locking his keys in his car—very rare. The question is, what are we […]
Avoiding the lava of stakeholder interviewing
Today was the “back to school” night for my son’s school, and one of the things we got to see was what they were doing in the new classroom, and in particular, the “identity board” project they’d been working on for the last week or so. And in the upper left corner was a picture […]
Your organization is not a special snowflake
One of the things you always hear when you talk with the people in an organization about what it is, what it does and how it does it, you’ll always hear about how unique, different or just… SPECIAL… …that organization is in relation to other organizations on the planet, its peers, competitors and other places […]
Security mojo from a classic Steve Jobs response
I was filling in some blanks on the upcoming September issue of the Security Sanity newsletter when my Google-fu showed me something I’d heard about, but I’d never actually watched before. It was a clip of Steve Jobs taking a question at the 1997 Apple developer conference on why he killed OpenDoc as part of […]
Get yer assets outta my office!
It’s been an interesting few days, folks. I’ve had more than a few conversations with people about the role of security, talking to stakeholders and how to actually understand the worlds of security. And one of the things that I keep tripping over is that people have a very tactical view of security. Now, ok, […]
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