When you learn something new, there’s two main problems you need to solve. The first, obviously, is how to put what you’ve learned into practice. This can take many forms. You can take a reference – like a book, a video, your notes, photos or even just what you remember –and you can make the […]
Stepping in mythical maturity mud puddles
While this is something I’ve written about before, it’s not normally something that comes up quite so strongly and quite so often in the same day. That “something” is the myth of some magical level of maturity in your security program when “things will happen.” When we get [magical maturity level], then we can be […]
If you want to improve your security program, this is how NOT to think…
Today I was scrolling through my LinkedIn feed, and I came across this gem. I won’t attribute credit here, because it wasn’t about security, but I can tell you that from my experience, this thought has been echoed by many a security person in the past—including me, I’m sorry to say: === In my experience […]
Will you be riding in the Jeep?
Given the recent “end of an era” for the MCU with Avenger’s Endgame, I’ve been going back through the movies in order—well…most of them. I’m still not that crazy about the 2008 Incredible Hulk film, but for the rest, yeah, I’m that kind of super hero geek. Aaaannnnnyyyyway… One of the scenes that still makes […]
It’s the FLOAT, stupid!
As you may know from my recent story about a suicidal frog at the house we rent in Cape Town now – or perhaps it was just an unfortunate accident, take your pick – there is a pool. And said pool hasn’t been fully operational or “happy” in the 8 months we’ve lived here. Now, […]