This weekend, as you do after 5 weeks of the whole family under one roof, my wife decided that it was time to clean out the garage. And, apart from needing to do a bit of real-world architecture archaeology on my son’s disassembled Hot Wheels garage to get it back together correctly, things generally went […]
Remember who built the spacecraft that put men on the moon?
Nope? Well, neither do I, actually. But we all remember that in 1969 the United States put the first men on the moon. The name of the company was actually two different ones: the command module was built by North American Aviation of P-51, B-25 and F-86 fame, and the lunar module was built by […]
Winning your own architecture wars
I want to tell you a little story about this guy – he was a bit geeky, loved comic books and sci-fi – and he had this crazy idea that was basically *guaranteed* to fail—at least as far as most people were concerned, anyway. But this geeky, highly introverted guy…he just wouldn’t give up, and, […]
“Just winging it” is for birds, not your security program
How much of your security control environment has been driven by, basically, “it seemed like there was a gap” or, “it seemed like a good idea” instead of being traceably linked to real business requirements? Now, how many of those controls are the same ones that the user community complains the most about? Hmmm….any correlation? […]
What’s really keeping you from making credible strategic security plans?
A couple of things in my inbox interesting yesterday. First there was this article talking about the challenges of building credibility with the business as a CISO. Their list of the top issues in this area were: the ability to get initial buy-in from fellow executives on security strategies and initiatives and how they support […]
