In today’s long list of emails was a link to an interview from RSA with Jeff Reed, Cisco’s CISO talking about why complexity is a top challenge for CISOs. Those of you who remember some of my previous emails – especially those talking about the launch of The Agile Security System™ itself last July – […]
Sometimes, knowing what it isn’t is more important
I’m not sure if it’s been said before or not, but ultimately, life itself is essentially a classification problem. Every day we’re faced with many situations, people, actions, events and observations, and how we choose to interpret those is fundamentally based on how we classify them. Because if we can’t classify them effectively, then we […]
How architecture can save your life…or get you killed
I’d originally planned to write a different email today, but in doing some quick research to make sure I wasn’t being loopy, I found something I wanted to share with you. The excerpt below is one of many recollections of Col. Francis Harold Potter, USAF, I ran across: === In 1957 I was flying B-52’s […]
Want some stinky ogre security? Are you sure about that?
One of the scenes in the original Shrek that I find rolling around my head on a semi-regular basis is where Donkey and Shrek are walking through the Sunflower fields, and Donkey’s trying to understand why Shrek would go fight the dragon and rescue a princess just to make someone happy. …I mean, he’s an […]
Detail junkies
Today, I indulged myself a little and took a break with the family since I spent almost all weekend pounding out the August newsletter. Now that it’s basically in the bag, I wanted to talk about something that I’d been beating around the bush about before, but even I wasn’t really quite aware of until […]
