Since Cape Town’s weather has finally decided that summer’s really here, there’s less rain, more sunshine… …and more flies. One of the things I enjoy about both Cape Town (and Brazil, in fact) is that most of the time, during the day at least, you leave the house pretty open. The doors are all open […]
DevSecOps picnics in the park
As you might know, I really do waffle a bit between loving and hating DevSecOps as a concept. I think it’s great on the one hand because it’s shined a light on a lot of really bad software development practices people like John Viega, Gary McGraw and my friend Sverre Huseby have been talking about […]
Dispelling the mists of SABSA misperception
It was a dark and stormy ni—well, not really. Here in Cape Town, it’s kinda still bright, it’s warm, with a light breeze, and the trick-or-treaters are walking the streets, scooping up their treasures from the rows of houses in our neighborhood. My son’s super excited because he has “customers” come to the door, so […]
Who’s afraid of Security Ghosts and Ghouls?
In my inbox this morning was from a fellow email subscriber and buyer of the upcoming Definitive Guide to The Agile Security System™ where he was talking about experiencing first hand the value of using SABSA attributes tailored to your stakeholders. However, he also mentioned the quite common challenge of getting people to listen to […]
How to give the business confidence you’ve got their back—in just 3 slides
Imagine your next meeting with the board. You know you’ll only have a few minutes to say what you need to say, and you also know that this line of communication isn’t open nearly as much as it should be. But hey, you think to yourself. Cybersecurity is just one of the bazillion things the […]
