One of the key skills you really need to have if you’re going to be able to excel in any kind of strategic role, and I don’t care if that means you’re building a business, building a security program or building security architecture—it’s all related. And that relationship is something that many people fail to […]
It was a spectacular failure
It doesn’t happen that often, but it did last night. I created a complete culinary disaster for dinner when I made my 2nd-ever attempt at making Phad Thai. After over two weeks of no takeaway being available due to #lockdownSA, we’d gotten into kinda a rut of what we were eating. One of the things […]
How to handle COVID-driven cloud questions
Instead of taking the day off for parades and pubs (especially if you’re in Dublin), this St. Patricks Day may find you faced with a whole new array of cloud security questions driven by the work-from-home directives and necessities of the communities in which you live and work. And, even if things have started to […]
I said…read the damn policy—or the puppy dies
I get it. I really do. The old saying of “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink,” seems to be one of the most frustrating truths in security. I remember on one particular, highlight politicized, multi-vendor public sector project I was on, it was enough to literally make me […]
Eating some “pause and reflect” dogfood
One thing that occurred to me this morning as I was working on something else I’ll share with you in a few weeks is that perhaps some of my last few emails have come across a little hard-assed. And if that’s the way you’ve felt, I’m not apologizing, but I am acknowledging that perhaps it’s […]
