My son is on a bit of a dinosaur kick over the last few days. First it was the Lego version of Jurassic World on Netflix, and tonight, the book he picked was an amusing story called Tyrannosaurus Drip, where a reed-eating little guy who looks somewhat like a Parasaurolophus accidentally gets raised by a […]
“The business” doesn’t care about cybersecurity
I recently had a conversation with someone who was lamenting about how difficult it was to connect and to communicate with “the business”—you know, the “everyone who isn’t in IT or Security” part of the organization… …that same organization you’re busting your backside every day to protect and keep safe. Yeah, those people. Now maybe […]
Speaking CEO
One of the CISOs I follow on Twitter triumphantly tweeted (oohhhh….’lotta ‘literation there): “I think I managed to speak CEO effectively today.” And I think that’s great. It’s an achievement…and it’s also something that’s a bit like Steven Wright’s photo of Houdini locking his keys in his car—very rare. The question is, what are we […]
Avoiding the lava of stakeholder interviewing
Today was the “back to school” night for my son’s school, and one of the things we got to see was what they were doing in the new classroom, and in particular, the “identity board” project they’d been working on for the last week or so. And in the upper left corner was a picture […]
Your organization is not a special snowflake
One of the things you always hear when you talk with the people in an organization about what it is, what it does and how it does it, you’ll always hear about how unique, different or just… SPECIAL… …that organization is in relation to other organizations on the planet, its peers, competitors and other places […]
