A lot of people out there are talking about the direct impacts to themselves of the global mandatory and voluntary lockdowns enacted to control the spread of COVID-19. This continued spread would be the direct risk of unrestricted physical contact, and the impact, as we’ve seen, clearly has the ability to cause the ultimate impact […]
When the “gold standard” turns out to be the foil wrapper off a 25¢ piece of chocolate
Funnily enough, just like with governance itself, there’s both good and bad guidance about governance. Now, “bad” may be in the eye of the beholder for sure, so on this Turkey-day in the US, I’m going to briefly go hunting some sacred cows instead of flightless birds. When I was a kid, my parents used […]
The Organizational Governance Mapper 9000
One of the shows my kids like to watch is Rusty Rivets, where Rusty and his friend Ruby and their team of robots create all kinds of crazy machines out of recycled parts to solve problems (and most of the time, problems they’ve inadvertently created for themselves). For example, Rusty and Ruby get his great […]
How do I know if I can trust you?
Trust. It’s a funny thing, really. And, maybe it’s something that we don’t really think about too much…or often enough. Yet, trust is really at the foundation of what we do every day as security professionals. Trust is our currency. On one level, our organization trusts us to keep them safe what they’re off slaying […]
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 […]
