Believe me, I know how it goes. You get a new toy, find a new show, buy a new book, and that’s it. You’re obsessed with it—at least, if it’s any good, or it’s something you’ve actually wanted. If not, you take it out and play with it for exactly 5 minutes, and it either […]
All for the want of architecture
There’s a quote by a long-dead Unitarian minister named William Alger that gives us a good introduction to today’s security architecture sin: wrath. It goes: “Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.” And, as far as we’re concerned, you can quite easily replace the word “reason” in Alger’s quote with the […]
The architecture before the fall
It’s one thing to be proud of the work you do, but it’s a whole other thing to be so in love with it that you start idolizing the work and forget… …what the work is actually for. And this goes as much for assuming people can immediately see the value of what you do […]
Cloud, schmoud…let’s quit kidding ourselves
This morning, a lovely little promo “predictions” video from FireEye popped up in my LI feed whose basic premise was this: “The job of a cybersecurity professional is getting more difficult due to the amount of cloud being used.” “Woop…woop…woop…woop” is the sound of the BS detector going off, and it’s just one of the […]
The cost of standing still
An old Chinese proverb popped up in my inbox yesterday that’s worth thinking about: “Many a false step was made by standing still.” It can apply to many different areas of your life for sure, but – unsurprisingly – what I want to talk about is in relation to your work as a security professional generally, […]
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