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Tired? Frustrated? Even…angry?

I know. I’ve been there. And…it’s ok. It’s ok to be tired, frustrated or even angry as a Security Leader. You might even say it goes with the territory. The key thing about feeling that way is what you do with it. You might try and ignore it. But then something else pops into your […]

Some (longer) thoughts on ships, harbors, safety and saying “no”

I’ve been having some conversations lately about safety. In this case, it’s about personal safety, but it really doesn’t matter, because it applies generally. Oddly, just last night I was thinking about it again. It was rather hot here, the family was asleep, but it was cool outside. I ended up sitting in the garden, […]

When cybersecurity gobbles 11,933,175 hamburgers

Now that’s a lot of hamburgers… But at $4.19 for a Dave’s Hot ’n Juicy 1/4lb Single with Cheese, that’s exactly how many hamburgers disappear from Wendy’s top-line revenue thanks to a $50M settlement they agreed yesterday. Those 12 million burgers represent about 4% of the company’s 2018 revenue, and would roughly equate to the […]

So you didn’t like my last email so much…

Ok. Fair enough. We’re all different, and that’s a good thing. So I’d like to touch on a couple of points of the diversity in the feedback from the last email. The first type of feedback I got was it wasn’t “security enough.” Well, maybe that’s true. However… If you want hardcore, traditional “security” or […]