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 […]
Why “systemic impact” should be more than just an architecture talking point
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 […]
Blaming the billionaire boogymen
Over the weekend, I happened on a particular post in my Twitter feed that actually irritated me enough that I’m still thinking about it this morning as I write this email. The scene was somewhere in an urban, 3rd-world setting where a family with three small children were filmed lying in the street. The children […]
Do you want mastery or do you want cheap…or even “free”?
We’re about to launch the final module of our Building Effective Security Programs with SABSA course next week, and the subject of this module is how to change your organization. I wanted to add some thoughts on change from the discipline of Systems Thinking in addition to psychology and organizational management aspects that are already […]
