A very Happy Easter to you! I’m sure it’s quite different than your last one. So, for something to think about when either: your small children are bouncing off the walls more than usual thanks to the OD on Easter candy, or you’re able to just sit in your solitude and let yourself reflect on […]
The honest security architect
The agenda for today was actually pretty straightforward. My mother’s still visiting for the holidays for a bit longer, and things have been a bit hectic, so we haven’t really managed to do all that much “touristy” stuff this time around. So the plan was to let her visit a couple of wineries, then have […]
Cutting through the business-driven bullshite like a hot knife through butter
As you might remember, the subject of the next Security Sanity™ print newsletter is all about security governance, and, governance in general within the concepts and foundational rules established by SABSA. And in talking to people about it a lot of the time, we get tangled up in assumptions about what we really mean when […]
Seat belts save lives, but does the CSF?
According to the WHO, the effectiveness of seat belts in worldwide studies is about 50% in avoiding the loss of life during a car crash. This is pretty concrete, and the studies have been validated since the ‘60s in some form or another, so there’s a pretty high confidence in that probability. However, our friend, […]
Effective action without the hits and misses of the 10,000 hour myth
Do you really want to become a world-class security leader or security architect, or do you want to set a different target? Because remember…“great” is often the enemy of “good enough.” We’ve all heard the magic 10,000 hour figure before. Malcom Gladwell popularized it in the book Outliers, and then you hear it in songs, […]
